I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

We spend too much time hiding illness.

Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and in the minds of the [white] men who rule Alabama, those children had never lived [...] their blood is on so many hands, that history will weep in the telling...and it is not new blood. It is old, so very old.