Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.

We must try to contribute joy to the world.

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. But if you go to foreign films, if you go to documentaries, if you go to independent films, if you go to good films, you will become a better person because you will understand human nature better. Movies record human nature in a better way than any other art form, that's for sure.

We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.