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 an answer.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
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 experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.
We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars.
The very fact of snow is such an amazement.
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.
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 the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it.
Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.
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.
One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film’s defining moments.
I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.
What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.
When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.
I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can’t say it wasn’t interesting.
Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.