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Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.
They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.
Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.
For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.
Contradictory strands create an essay that's richly ambivalent.
Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
What makes people interesting is the spirit that shines through.
That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.
John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.
I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.
I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.
Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.
"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame.
Never less than bizarrely delightful. The monster is mesmerizing.
Shailene Woodley is reason enough to see 'The Fault in Our Stars.'
I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.
I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work.
Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.
In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'
The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.
I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.
Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!
To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.
A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target.
We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.
Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.
In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.
Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation.
Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year.
We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.
Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.
Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.
Selling tickets at the Bing Theater at LACMA was my first job in L.A.
Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.
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.
Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast.
Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.
And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.
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.
My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
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.
What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.