By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

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If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number...

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number...

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get...

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get...

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

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

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics....

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics....

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White...

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White...

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling...

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling...

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews....

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews....

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

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

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which...

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which...

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to...

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to...

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different...

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different...

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of...

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of...

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

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

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

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

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.