"When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you."

“I think that I'm increasingly aware of the fact that in order to work towards any statement that's radically global or universal, you have to start in a place that's radically intimate and particular.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu

“What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.”

“Peace has no borders.”

“I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.”

Source : "Creator's Commentary: Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross on 'Kirby: Genesis' #1". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. June 17, 2011.

“As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the building. So one could say, or at least it is the common belief that architecture has to be built; I always denied that, because ultimately it is based on an idea. I don't ever need a building to verify my idea. Of course, what with a building is more its vanity and actual physical experience. But I anticipate; I wouldn't even build it if I could not anticipate how it would be.”

“Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.”

“I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.”

“Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.”

Source : Dziga Vertov (1984). “Kino-eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov”, p.88, Univ of California Press