There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.

The right really wants to punish you for having an opinion. And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

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

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.