And I don’t know that he listened to the radio 
much. I never had a sense that he knew anything 
about music, and I did not have a sense that he 
understood film history. But he had certain 
insights about it and those insights were his 
contributions. You would never look at him as an 
expert on anything; you looked to him as a man of 
ideas, a visionary, and as I say, a poet.


Q:  Why haven’t there been more Marshall 
McLuhans, people who can galvanize those around 
them with their ideas and insights?