Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.

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

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

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

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.

Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.