The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.

Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.

Your success is hidden underneath your fears and weaknesses

This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.

The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.

I don't support violence, period.

Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.

For a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin. I didn't defend what he had done; the fact is, nobody could defend the things that Khrushchev revealed.