I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.

I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.

I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.

You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising.

[Companies that specialized in how to destroy unions] don't make it a secret, and they have all sorts of techniques for management to destroy unions.

The faith to step out is worthless without the faithfulness to stick it out.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.