One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

Film theory has nothing to do with film.

What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?