If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

A film is a machine made of images

Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.

To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.

What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.

If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading

To fish in troubled waters.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60.

I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went