Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that….

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature..

From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journ….

To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative ori….

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't..

We must try to contribute joy to the world..

Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the peo….

The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside..

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and t….

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach..

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

Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them ….

Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run..

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do..

In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called the mov….

Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way..

Valentines Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think its more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do not date that person again. And i….

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius..

I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose..

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win..

The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that gener….