Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

Not everyone is fodder for books, ' said Rosalind.

The young must not scoff at the old, for flowers don’t bloom forever

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block.

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

I would say she's definitely not shy, like her dad

It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.

Enemies are an indication of character.