"We are always interested in constructing ways of evoking the pleasures of cinema without implicitly accepting an ideology--of passivity, manipulation, and repressed violence--that we would explicitly reject. Can there be films that remain cinematic without indulging in one form of pornography or another? Murray and Max... is, in part, a proposal, a blueprint, for such a form of cinema." -Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren

[Source: Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde: Things Are Always Going Wrong Program Notes, 2009]