Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.

All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.

We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.