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….

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before..

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise..

Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcan….

If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails..

I have no fear of death. We all die. I consider my remaining days to be like money in the bank. When it is all gone, I will be repossessed..

Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it's claime….

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out the same stuff. When I look ….

Exhilarating. Radical Grace moved me to tears with its portrayal of good people putting their beliefs into action in ways that transcend all ideologi….

I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance..

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy..

To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water..

Most of us do not consciously look at movies..

When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: "Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend.".

One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many….

A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along..

A film is a terrible thing to waste..

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper..

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that..

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my ….