Entertaining the reader is a good function.

Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

It's all about having fun and smiling and shaking hands.