If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.