It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed.

Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

"The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.