It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

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.

Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't stop taking right actions.

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

Big Dreams Ccreate the Magic that Stir Men's Souls to Greatness...

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Motorboat to heaven, baby's got the key. Tell me, how am I supposed to get in close back here on these water skis?

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.