Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

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.

Kitten, four hours of sleep while holding you is far more beneficial to me than eight hours of endless tossing and turning because you're not there. -Bones from This Side of the Grave

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.

Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots

When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.

The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.

There is no excuse for anyone not to train three times a week...Anyone can change their mind if they want to. It's all about motivation

Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me?

Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.

The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.

This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.