[I took this paper off my refrigerator today... don't remember when I put it there or why, and had forgotten what it said.]

Jacques Derrida in interview with L.A. Times, April 9, 2003

on reasons for not wanting his image to appear in books or in the media:

“First, I had what you might describe as ideological objections to the conventional author photograph—a head shot, a picture of the writer at his desk—because it struck me as a concession to selling and to media.”

This entry was posted on May 16, 2009 and is filed under movies/photography, quotations.