Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good.

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.

Sometimes, it's all about the casting.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.