If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.

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.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

If life seems jolly rotten, There’s something you’ve forgotten.

We must fight for the freedom of religion

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

It's been Axelle's [Carolyn] and my burden to bear, for better or worse. A very fun burden to bear.

The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

People often say very, very nice, complimentary things. But I think it's better if you don't take that too much to heart.

You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.