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“When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?”
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“The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.”
Source : Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.79, Library of America
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“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.”
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“The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.”
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“no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.”
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“Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being degenerate into deathly specters of themselves. Solitude split off from community is no longer a rich and fulfilling experience of inwardness; now it becomes loneliness, a terrible isolation. Community split off from solitude is no longer a nurturing network of relationships; now it becomes a crowd, an alienating buzz of too many people and too much noise.”
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“I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.”
Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 4, 2014. 
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“Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.”
Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 7, 2010.
