I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.

I never argue with people about movies.

Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

Each day I connect with my inner being. Doing so, makes navigating through life so much easier.

You create yourself by becoming something new each day

Remember people by their souls (through their eyes), not by their names.

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.

No amount of telling is worth doing it once.