It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

In the world of bad movies, 'Death to Smoochy' is a towering achievement.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.