Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

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.

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

She'd always had a hankering for sitting quietly in dark, confined spaces.

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.

There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of the time when you try, you fall on the wrong one.

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.

One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.

We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.