We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it.

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.