Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

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.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

I always have a different way of looking at things.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

Higher dimensions of Awareness means Higher dimensions of energy.

Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin wrote a book.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.