By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care.

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.