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

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

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.'

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.