The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.