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Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.
If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.
It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice.
Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?
It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.
Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.
The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."
It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along.
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.
If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.
A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.
Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.
Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.
What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.
There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?
It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.
We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.
And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.
There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.
I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.
Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.
I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.
If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.
Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.
It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.
One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered
I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.
Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.
'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.
[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.
People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.
Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.