It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

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.

He remembers which sisterI like least and askshow she is doing.(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

Ford is leaving. You see that, their small car division leaving. Thousands of jobs leaving Michigan, leaving Ohio. They're all leaving. And we can't allow it to happen anymore.

Bring me liquor, Bones, fast, to take my foot out of my mouth. Cat to Bones

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.