The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: "Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend."

On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

Friends don't let Jackasses drink and drive.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.