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 ….

Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a ….

I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those pr….

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..

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true..

Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartla….

The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up..

It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and….

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

I've been told that I am evil. I've been told that I am behind the persecution of millions of Americans. That I have encouraged hate toward gays. I'v….

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

Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not l….

It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed..

Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they ca….

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

Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you'd….

Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about..

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….

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never….

One of the most sublime and hazardous moments in human experience comes when two people lock eyes and realize that they are sexually attracted to one….

The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and in the minds of the [white] m….