“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”

Strangeness is everywhere, but strangers are only where we define them.

In his photographs and texts, ­Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways.

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream

“Lifestyle must conform to the above-named circles of persons or be easily adapted,” “artistic talent,” “strong general education.”

Around 2007 I had the idea of making a feature film about a German woman who is kidnapped in Iraq. It was supposed to be a chamber piece, shot on two intradiegetic cameras.