Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

I Travel a lot

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved

I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.

I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.