Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself.

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.

Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.

We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

I'm not a complicated person.

the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.