“The idea was to take a movie which was about death...and use the iconography of life to tell the story.”

“Life is a movie; death is a photograph.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

“Many of the stories economists tell take the form of models—for whatever else they are, economic models are stories about how the world works.”

Paul Krugman (1953) American economist

“There’s a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it’s drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there’s a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.”

Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician

“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

“Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

“Although it takes place in Gotham City and fundamentally it is a movie about Batman, Chris wanted us to play everything for truth. The actors he chose for this movie are into realism.”

Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977) American actress

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”

Connie Willis Passage

“Write about us,” Robinson urged. “Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

“But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.”

Nicholson Baker book The Anthologist