The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.

The street finds its own uses for things.

Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.