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.

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.

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.

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

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

You know, when you sell real estate, that's not like going out and selling a stock. That takes a long time.

I think there is nothing sexier than a handlebar moustache.

You ever taste some damn chicken so horrible, that you wished the chicken would show up at your house and show your lady how to cook him?

The fellow that calls you 'brother' usually wants something that doesn't belong to him.

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

As good luck would have it.