Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

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.

Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturity and understanding, where you do something which makes you stand out of crowd.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

In a world filled with people, some happy, others like me, I feel so all alone.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.

The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

Believe me, when my ‘personal endowments’ are being discussed, I always pay attention.” ~ Cam Rohan