Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

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.

Art is a kind of mining, " he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

Man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets.

Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

I was on the central table and we were a very intimate group.

Let everything that comes your way, help you be new.

She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.

I watch ESPN all day long.

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.