Shakespeare. It goes like this: All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts

Rules are not valid because the Senate passed them, or because heroes once played by them, or because God pronounced them through Moses or Muhammad. They are valid only if and when players freely play by them.

The ontology of the screen is an absolute present tense in constant vivid movement.

audience does not receive its identity according to the persons within it, but according to the events it observes.

This familiar dynamic, in fact, structures all our contemporary notions of play, games, and imagination. Play can be defined as the tension between the rules of the game and the freedom to act within those rules.