Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

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

I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance.

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

Exhilarating. Radical Grace moved me to tears with its portrayal of good people putting their beliefs into action in ways that transcend all ideological boundaries.

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.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.