There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.