“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”

“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.”

“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”

“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable w...”

“My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, ...”

“Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You ca...”

“An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative eff...”

“A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.”

“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...”

“With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order the...”

“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”

“The mediastenographers to power.”