If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

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