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If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.
Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.
Collaboration is a key [to success]. It really is.
Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.
We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.
Film for me became how I related to everything else.
I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?
Tarantino thinks the Bing is a great room for comedy.
Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy.
Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.
Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.
A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.
a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.
PICTURE OF LIGHT is luminous and genuinely transcendent.
Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.
LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up.
Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.
NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
Amy Adams is the wish your heart makes…she’s wicked good.
We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.
That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me.
I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.
The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.
All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.
I really feel like I could do anything if given enough time.
In scene after scene, meaning sneaks in and sometimes roars.
This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.
His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines.
I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.
The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.
In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.
I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a filmmaker.