We spend too much time hiding illness.

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 reason can make as much damage as passion.

As long as we dare dream, we can occupy new land.

We see answers to prayer all around us.our home, family, children, healing, life, love, are all answers to prayer.

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

You and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best.

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond