All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

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.

When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...

Trying to figure some people out would be like trying to put an elephant in a blender.

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical.

Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop.

I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.