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

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.

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.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

If tears were liquor, I'd have drunk myself sick.

Truth is not a prerequisite for belief, whilst belief is often times a catalyst for searching for one's own truth.

Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.

He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.