There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.

I never argue with people about movies.

Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.

When you strike the shepherd you strike the sheep.

Start with your heart, and only good can follow!

My balls shrank in terror. I was convinced we were going to die.

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

For children, most importantly, being in the garden is something magical.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.