Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

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

I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed.

I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.