Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you'd have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.

All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.