Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

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.

I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.

You can't be somebody that you're not, because all of you shows up.

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.

I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.