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

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.