Virtuality will destroy reality.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

Images contaminate us like viruses.

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht weißt. Das ist Wissen.

But chance has a taste for conspiracy.

You can Laugh or you can cry, it changes nothing

Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing it.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

Usually when I ask people to reach into my velvety pouch it means something different.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.

I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.