The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

I have a great love of the actual.

I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.

Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

The trouble about God is that he is like a person who never acknowledges your letters and so in time you come to the conclusion either that he does not exist or that you have got his address wrong.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

You'll never be a winner of souls unless you're first a weeper for souls.

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

Eat lots of fresh vegetables, drink water, exercise often, and meditate daily.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

Humans are not really very humane.