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Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.
We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.
I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.
A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.
Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.
If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.
My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.
Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.
Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free.
In the world of bad movies, 'Death to Smoochy' is a towering achievement.
I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.
The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.
Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.
We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.
If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.
Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed.
A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.
We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.
I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.
I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.
I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.
Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.
I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.
Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.
All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life.
Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'
It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.
That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.