Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

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.

The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.

Hearts break along the same lines they broke before, I find, and they hurt no less in the rebreaking.

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible

Flexibility is the key to stability.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.