That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

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.

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Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

Don't imitate. Find your own writing voice and hone it until it is yours alone.

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.

The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

The love had just vanished. We're still friendly.

Without philosophy, action has no meaning.

I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.