No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance.

What you see is so much less than what you get.

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

The right really wants to punish you for having an opinion. And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.