Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

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.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.