To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.

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.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

I realize that you have to be careful sometimes what you wish for.

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

In the event of a cabin failure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling, and untangling them will annoy you before you die.

With the experience to judge, one need not pre-judge.

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.