I’ll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.
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 quote opening day.
Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don’t they want to come out into the light with the rest of us? They may be perfectly nice, but the hoods send an uncertain statement.
There’s something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.
Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven’t a clue.
We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
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.
In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.
Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren’t solved, they’re dealt with.
Well, we’re all dying in increments. I don’t mind people knowing what I look like, but I don’t want them thinking I’m dying.
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 like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good.
It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.
The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.
There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He’s daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.
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 heartland.
Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don’t enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That’s why writing on the Internet has become a life-saver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.
Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.
Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert’s Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.