Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

Some of these people make my skin crawl.

I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they want to come out into the light with the rest of us? They may be perfectly nice, but the hoods send an uncertain statement.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.