Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.

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

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: "Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend."

I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.