If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.