Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

Measure your life not by years but by adventures.

I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.

If I do decide to have a Girl's Gone Wild moment, I want it to be with some hot young thing, not a senior citizen-Jaycie Lerner

Being anti-social can also mean that you're aware of how annoying it is to be social.

Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses.

There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables.

It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.

I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.