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.

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

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.

An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it.

Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!

I hope that the truth shall eventually give me back my freedom.

That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

I started doing martial arts when I was a kid. I don't often get that kind of role, although I get to do it periodically, which is a lot of fun for me.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.