Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

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.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music.

Science leads you to killing people.

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

God will meet us and help us.

As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.