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.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.

That which has been promised comes to those who look forward to Friday. These are the achievements made possible through perseverance and focus.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.'

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

A lot of people probably don't realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when you're not a lawyer. I see everyone on 'The Good Wife' - everyone, people who have been there since day one - struggling with that language because it is just not how people talk.

Without courage you cant practice any other virtue consistently.

Train your mind to see the good in every situation.

I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

My family is my life and everything else comes second as far as whats important to me.

Fiona Shaw is one of my idols. She's phenomenatastic. I just make up a word for her - that's how much I love her.

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

What I love about Twitter specifically is that reciprocity is not guaranteed, nor expected. In other words, I can go one way. I can put things out. I don't have to respond to everybody.

Be thankful for your life, and forgive everybody, including yourself.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.

The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.

I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.