Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all comes down to two minds crying out from their solitude.

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

Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.

Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.