The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt.

Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.

My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

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

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.