It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

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.

It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others.

Power is the gem of necessity. Without observing power, identity remains undiscovered.

Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone. Well in everyone but Peter."-Tris Prior

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

I had the cab driver drive me here backwards, and the dude owed me $27.50.

Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.