“Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.”

“Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.”

“...This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for "Are you fucking kidding me?”

“I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!”

“...This type of ending is a special instance of deus ex machina, known as the folie adieu, which is French for "Are you FUCKING kidding me?”

“Un Deus ex machina es la caballería que aparece en el último momento en una película del oeste”

“Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.”