Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.

I dance through life, living my bliss, steeped in joy.

Thinking of you is a poison I drink often.

If you think that climate change and global warming are not going to affect you, then you are easily misled.

We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

Feel the feeling as though the prayer has already been answered, and in that feeling we are speaking to the Forces of Creation, allowing the world to respond to us.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.

The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.