You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

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.

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.