If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.

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.

I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money.

You ought to forgive.

Sleep ... peace of the soul who put-test care to flight.

For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't have my love, my joy.

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more