When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

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

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

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