I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

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.

Now when I die, I shall only be dead.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

In life and love, there are no impossibilities.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

I need to make mistakes, just to learn (who i am)

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

Two reasons I come down here every year: the food and there are multiple guys here every year.

If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.