If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

How does anybody ever think of anything?