What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts.