And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don’t just try to shut them up.
Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free.
I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.
Aren’t you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.
Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.
I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.
3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood’s current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.
There are two things you can’t argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn’t make you laugh, no one can tell you why it’s funny, and it’s difficult to reason someone out of an erection.
A remarkable documentary that’s also one of the most beautiful nature films I’ve seen.
Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.
CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity.
When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.
By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp.
I’ve never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.
If a movie isn’t a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
We spend too much time hiding illness.
One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered.