The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.