I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.

Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.