I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

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.

ignorance and power, they´re a poor combination.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.

I am the wilderness lost in man.