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.

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.

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.

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

There is nothing else to be worried about, But TIME.

I opened the door and went inside, calling "I'm home!" Except that I wasn't, really. Because home meant something else to me now, and had for quite awhile. And he didn't live there anymore.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.

There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.