Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you.

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

I'm not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren't even hot.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.