“When L.A.s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.”

“When he placed a candle on the shelf across the room from him and lit its wick, he came to realize that in fact everything he saw was a flat surface, like a screen that in fact dimension was an il...”

“Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994's 'Quiz Show,' exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the social indign...”

“Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compe...”

“Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water'...”

“Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.”

“I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you.”

“A picture can tell a thousand words,but a few words can change its story.”

“Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.”

“If you are in motion than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are emotional than you are in an agitated state.”

“Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.”

“All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still”

“So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me."Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie.""I see," she said. "Well, I'd think that would get boring, everyone having the samename."I thought about thi...”

“I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.”

“Sub-consciousness is extremely selfish, it will do anything to keep you safe and main in a comfort zone”