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

And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.