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

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. But if you go to foreign films, if you go to documentaries, if you go to independent films, if you go to good films, you will become a better person because you will understand human nature better. Movies record human nature in a better way than any other art form, that's for sure.

It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.