On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

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.

You always had it in you to create miracles, but you forgot that it required you to do the opposite of what you are doing now.

Every Christian can become a rich person.

Life is what you make of it.You have to decide what you want in life.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.

Color is a language, like music.

I am not Mr. Chairman. I am His Excellency, the President of Palestine.