Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.

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

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

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.