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

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

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

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!

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.