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.
Life’s missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced – because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.
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.
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.
The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.
Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there on the spot, and that’s rarely the case in acting. You have to know who the character is, what the situation is and what is needed.