Joanne Woodward’s Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.

Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.

When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions

The true marriage movie involving in-laws and children is a story about how marriage is directly affected by external characters who impact the central relationship in various ways.

Movies endorsed unwanted ideas by putting them into story form and resolving them up there on the screen. The goal was, as always, identification, but also relief.

In-laws were often used as plot devices to drive a happy couple apart, to destroy marital love and trust.

When we find the crossing point between our attitude and what happens in our life, then we change ordinary life into a miraculous adventure.

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

It's not about how fast you go. It's not about how far you go. It's a process.

Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses