Friends don't let Jackasses drink and drive.

In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called the movies a machine for causing emotions in the audience. Bresson (and Ozu) take a different approach. They regard, and ask us to regard along with them, and to arrive at conclusions about their characters that are our own. This is the cinema of empathy.

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

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

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out the same stuff. When I look at my e-mails, I see the same Limbaugh rhetoric; apparently, people don't have any ideas of their own. And there's just this drumroll of anti-progressive thought.