What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

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.

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.