Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.

I never argue with people about movies.

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

A fence should be horse high hog tight and bull strong.

We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

Poverty does not create our social problems...our social problems create our poverty.

A Warrior knows when a battle is worth fighting.