When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.

An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped.

While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

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

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.