In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.

The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwriting' classes that teach them the formulas for 'hit films.'

3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.

We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.