I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

Art is seduction, not rape.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.