“Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29

“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”

Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”

Francis Ford Coppola

“Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.”

David Lynch

“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”

Alan Moore, 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom

“Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.”

Georges Bataille

“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”

Paul Caponigro

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”

John Maynard Keynes