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The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.

I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.