I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

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.

We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil.

There is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurity of the vision. It is indeed illusion [mithyatva]

As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is is what matters.

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off.

Go see, ask why, show respect.

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.