I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that none of them were harmed during the production.

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.