What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period..

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls..

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls..

I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal ….

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images..

It's strange: We leave the movie having enjoyed its conclusion so much that we almost forgot our earlier reservations. But they were there, and they ….

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….

Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, ….

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame..

Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley.….

All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally ….

At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is important? It is such an….

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is..

A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it..

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immedi….

"Dirty Love" wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly inco….

The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live wi….

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for yo….

It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot..

We must try to contribute joy to the world... I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out..