We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.

We don't pretend to disagree.

After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.

In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.

They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.

We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.

I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. The title of this movie should have been 'Punch Adams!'

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

I gave you my whole heart. You gave it back in pieces.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Tolkien fans reacted so strongly to 'Lord Of The Rings' as a franchise because it stayed true; the heart of it was true to the book.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

How you do money is how you do life.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out of debt had this country until people get back to work, until they have good-paying jobs, and in between times, we will not move this economy forward until we are helping people be able to keep going in this recession.

I can only give away the love that I have received.

As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. Melody Beattie

I have always been quite good at falling in love but I dont pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

Never a daisy that grows but a mystery guideth the growing Never a river that flows but a majesty scepters the flowing.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

The climate is changing; I don't think you can deny that. But climate has always changed.

The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group's 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.

I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman and there is only one relationship possible faith.