Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

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. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.

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