What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

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

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped.

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

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?