A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

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

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).