One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

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Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be sorry and admiration of each others play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.

My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.

I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

It is preoccupation with possessions more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it.

There is no such thing as collective guilt.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.

I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that.

I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.

I was doing those roles on ABC Family late in the year, and at the same time, I was auditioning for 'Galavant.' But 'Galavant' was quite a wide casting call. I wasn't recommended or anything. It just kind of happened.

For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me.