No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

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.

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.

The best gifts in life are the memories of love that we have given away.

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

You have to be responsible for the energy you're putting out into the world.

We don't need no thought control.