I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity..

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know..

When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was….

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experienc….

Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people..

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts..

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'.

Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well, what God did was set t….

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances..

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out..

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you..

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things li….

Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed int….

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you..

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people..

Every great film should seem new every time you see it..

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear..

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization..

We are the playthings of the gods..

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack..