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

Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.

Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.