It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.