Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.