Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

There's an entry point to any relationship.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.

I appreciate all my fans. I appreciate anybody who has asked me for an autograph, or has complimented me as a fighter. When I go to the Hall of Fame events, I'm always well received and respected.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'