Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.

It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.

What I like about houses like Givenchy. It's easy to pull from. With Givenchy you can accessorize to build anything, any look.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

Only once have I taken on a role where I felt that I didn't quite understand her, but I said yes anyway. I don't think I'll ever do that again.

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road.

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.

I have my ignorance to thank for the few things I know.