We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

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

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.

CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.