If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you?

So . . . I am the someone you were speaking of earlier?Yes. You're my someone.You're my someone, too.

I love you endlessly.

— How do you make your pictures? — I don’t know, it’s not important.

I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?