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.

We must try to contribute joy to the world... I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself.

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.