“We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metap...” — James Gleick Quote

“We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.”

“In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.”

“If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.”

“I have been doing films since I was seven. I really love the medium itself.”

“Film, I think, is my medium.”

“There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.”