Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep in our hearts that if anyone truly got to know us, they'd truly get to love us - or at least know why we're the way we are. The problem in life, maybe the central problem, is that so few people ever seem to have sufficient curiosity to do the job on us that we know we deserve.

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

Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.

The very fact of snow is such an amazement.

What makes people interesting is the spirit that shines through.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.