But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.

Freedom within any kind of social structure - the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is - is an ongoing preoccupation of mine. And I certainly don't think I've come to the end of that exploration, and with any luck, I never will. But I'm very curious about exactly what kind of beast we are. We're so complicated.

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.