It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

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 will use this period of spiritual training in my life to focus on the greatness of my God instead of the impossibility of my circumstances.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

Alas! he is cold, he cannot answer me.

I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.

Inertia is the death of creativity

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

I also like to get out there to promote a positive message about the importance of family and faith and of doing the right thing.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.