It’s not what a movie is about, it’s how it is about it.
When you’re young you don’t realize that at every age you are always in the present, and in that sense no older;.
Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are.
I have been here before, I am here now, I will be here again.
You can’t say it wasn’t interesting.
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
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. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
I just assume I’m right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.
Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn’t have to be dripping in deep significance.
When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else’s life a little bit for a while. I can walk in somebody else’s shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief.