The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.