Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.
If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?
Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.
The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.