We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars.

Seeing the film over and over again, year after year, I find it never grows over-familiar. It plays like a favorite musical album; the more I know it, the more I like it.

A lot of people didn't [have sex] in high school in the 1950s, ... My favorite actors include Robert Mitchum and Clint Eastwood . They don't look anything like me.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

When you can't escape and depend constantly on others , You will learn to cry by laughing