Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.