"An impressionistic, experimental novel that is filled with an immense and delicate beauty. Told in soliloquies, the book explores a vast and tender interior landscape."

"Crazy-ass experimental filmmaker who has given me plenty of ideas for my own personal work. This collection was put together beautifully, with the attention to all the fine details that it deserves."

"The layering here of religious imagery, domesticity, sexuality, pop and classical music, mid-century cinema, and poetry into one expressive, experimental tapestry of adolescent struggle and joy moves me to no end. What a special filmmaker."

"An incredible document of how man’s greatest endeavors have unsettling consequences,” Nolan told Criterion about Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 experimental documentary. “Art, not propaganda, emotional, not didactic; it doesn’t tell you what to think — it tells you what to think about."