Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the screen of Western consciousness.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.