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.

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.

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.

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.

I've been coerced into free will.

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.

The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.