We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

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.

You will not pass!” Roman thundered.Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.

Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies, a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

It's time to believe in what you know.

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

There are always fights in a band. People get together for these reunion shows after 20 years, and they play a couple shows and break up again.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.