“I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.”

“sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”

“The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?”

“Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it. ”

“It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.”

“That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -...”

“I wouldnt be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.”

“Often interfaces are assumed to be synonymous with media itself. But what would it mean to say that interface and media are two names for the same thing? The answer is found in the remediation or l...”

“The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.”

“Women think in [Douglas] Sirks films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk the...”

“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”