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

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

We spend too much time hiding illness.

The right really wants to punish you for having an opinion. 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.