Jacques Lacan

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.