It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.

I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me.

The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and in the minds of the [white] men who rule Alabama, those children had never lived [...] their blood is on so many hands, that history will weep in the telling...and it is not new blood. It is old, so very old.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.