"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."

"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."

"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others."

"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."

"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."

"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."

"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."

"Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits."