I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

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 would devote your time to an activity even if you didn’t receive payment, you have found a key to your destiny

(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

The miracle is this - the more you give, the more you have.

Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.