Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.

One of the most sublime and hazardous moments in human experience comes when two people lock eyes and realize that they are sexually attracted to one another. They may not act on the knowledge.They may file it away for future reference. They may deny it. They may never see each other again. But the moment has happened, and for an instant all other considerations are insignificant.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

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

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.