The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical. Geoff Dyer Read Quote
Have you ever stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai? I’d warmly recommend it. It’s super luxurious, and right next door, there’s a classic slum. So you can do a quick slum tour and get back to your sanctuary without any inconvenience but with some excellent snaps. Geoff Dyer Read Quote
In the 1930s, photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange produced images of sharecroppers and Okies, which drew attention both to the conditions in which these unfortunates found themselves and to their heroic fortitude. Geoff Dyer Read Quote
The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality? Geoff Dyer Read Quote
You read ‘Stalingrad’ by Antony Beevor because you’re interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever. Geoff Dyer Read Quote
The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things. Geoff Dyer Read Quote
As soon as I hear that there’s something to get used to, I know that I won’t; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it. Geoff Dyer Read Quote
I guess, when I left university, I liked the idea of being a writer, and I thought then that being a writer really meant that you were a novelist. But if one of the impulses for being a novelist is wanting to be a storyteller, I never had any urge to tell stories. Geoff Dyer Read Quote
First, unreliability is not the sole preserve of fictional narrators. Second, the pleasure of patting oneself on the back for seizing on instances of unreliability and ignorance is, as the late Frank Kermode may or may not have pointed out, considerable. Geoff Dyer Read Quote
