People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

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

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.