Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

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.

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.

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

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.