The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

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.

The Bible will guide you. It will be a light unto your path.

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

People say get a job doing something you love. So far no one has offered to hire me to eat Whoppers with a switchblade.

How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left-

Instead of talking in the hope that people will listen, try listening in the hope that people will talk.

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.