There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.

Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.