I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest..

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values..

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds..

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with ….

CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure wh….

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems..

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something..

I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with….

Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there on the spot, and that's rarely t….

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, tu….

The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the work of an artist so sublimely confide….

Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put on this ….

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'.

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA..

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it..

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the Firs….

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African Ame….

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No secl….

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more..

Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex..

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios….