Thom Andersen Quotes

#1. In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie is.

Thom Andersen

#2. For me, the main point is that reality is rich. We can respond to it more immediately and directly, in ways where there's less displacement between representation and reality.

Thom Andersen

#3. How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating.

Thom Andersen

#4. When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.

Thom Andersen

#5. It also happens that I don't actually teach about the stuff I make things about. I'm not a film history teacher. In that way, it's also a release. But the ideas that I talk about in the movie are the same I talk about in school.

Thom Andersen