Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

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.

An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped.

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.