I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

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.

If you reject feedback, you also reject the choice of acting in a way that may bring you abundant success.

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.