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

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.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

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 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.

Every action in the present defines future possibilities.

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Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

Donald Trump said it was his idea for [Sarah] Palin to bring up her son at the rally.

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.