I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

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.'

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.

A young girl is possessed by a devil, and Constantine shouts, 'I need a mirror! Now! At least three feet high!' He can capture the demon in the mirror and throw it out the window, see, although you wonder why supernatural beings would have such low-tech security holes.