Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the read more

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.

Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and read more

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in read more

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and read more

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.