If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

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.

Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I’d be alive when it rolled around.

Many great opportunities are not cheap

The only ride I’m interested in is on you, cowboy, but I’m sure all the women say that.

But perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.

I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.