Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.

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.

Everyone of us has that moment in our life, when you wanted to say NO but say YES even when you know it’s not going in your favor.

Wishing is only for those who are very doubtful of their ability to transcend from all circumstances.

Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

The war has ruined us for everything.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.