Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed.