Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.

I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.

I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.

I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

You would be highly surprise with how much you could achieve if you would let go of a lot of negative habits in your life and start attending to your dreams with more consistent actions.

A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

I don't know what the character is going to be. We sit down and we create a character, and all of the characters in all of my films are made like that.

I've been through a lot in life, and had some ups and downs. It's what's led me to this day.

You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me.