When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.

Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.