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.

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.

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

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.

change is a constant in life – maybe the only constant there is – and sudden change is not unusual. Thus an important inquiry is: How can I make change a friend rather than source of fear?

The massive spread of corporate controlled humans across the face of the Earth would be regarded as a parasitic growth by nature.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead?

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"