Quotes from Philip:
It just never shows what you saw!
It was a horrible journey. Once you leave New York City, nothing changes anymore. It all looks the same. You can't imagine anything anymore. Above all, you can't imagine any change. I became estranged from myself.
Some nights, I was sure I would go back the next morning. But then I'd keep on driving...listening to that vulgar radio, and every night in a motel that looked just like all the others before. I'd watch that barbarous television. I didn't know what hit me.
“What's so barbaric about this TV is not that it chops up everything and interrupts it with ads, though that's bad enough. Far worse is that everything it shows turns into advertising too, ads for the status quo. All these TV images come down to the same common, ugly message, a kind of vicious contempt. No image leaves you in peace. They all want something from you.”
I think it's a pity that the beautiful old houses are being torn down. They don't bring in enough rent. The empty spaces look like graves. Like house graves.
Quotes from Angela:
In this city...when you reach an intersection...it's like...entering a clearing in the woods.
That happens when you lose all sense of your own self. And you lost that long ago.
Your stories and your experiences you treat them like raw eggs. As if you were the only one to experience things. And that's why you keep taking pictures. They're something you can hold on to, more evidence that it was you who saw these things. And that's why you came here. To have someone listen to you, to you and your stories that you're only telling to yourself.