I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

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.

Dead people are just great. Meet me when you are.

Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense

I am just going outside and may be some time." Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.