I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.

I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.

I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.

MELODYLong chorus, pierce the night.Noon for crickets.

After we bring food home from the grocery store...Dogs must think we are the greatest hunters ever!

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

When business is good it pays to advertise when business is bad you've got to advertise.

How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.

Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath.

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]