You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

Every fear hides a wish.

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.