Film schools are not rigorous enough. They let things get by and kids get out there and they think they are saying something and doing something.

We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.

The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.

I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.

True. The school admin decided that a girls clothes were more important than her education.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke .

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

I find Mormons adorable.