The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

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.

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.