That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive.

The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.

An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.

The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it’s a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets ‘Spider-Man.’ Are you kidding me? You cannot win.

In scene after scene, meaning sneaks in and sometimes roars.

Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

Paprika is evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie sandbox.

Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as a commentary on the world as much as on Israel.

Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.

The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.

It looked like Ben Stiller was one of the showbiz meteorites who was moving so fast he would soon have no worlds left to conquer.

We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we’ve done with it.

It was the Buffalo Bills at the Minnesota Vikings on NBC. It went to about five markets.

Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

As soon as my mother saw my father, she said, "Oh! I think I'm gonna marry that man." That's the reason I've been married four times, because I think it's that easy ... it really is not.

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

Even if their child is useless, parents will not find them shameful. But if you're an outstanding child, you don't have the right to find your parents shameful.

Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.