There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.