Edward Jay Epstein

“There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“He further disclosed that before leaving the NSA, he had gained access to the lists of computers that the NSA had penetrated…

— Edward Jay Epstein

The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

— Edward Jay Epstein

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“would strain credibility that such privileges would be awarded to an intelligence defector who had refused to cooperate with Russian authorities.”

— Edward Jay Epstein

I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter…

— Edward Jay Epstein

In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable…

— Edward Jay Epstein

Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in…

— Edward Jay Epstein

Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of…

— Edward Jay Epstein

In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion…

— Edward Jay Epstein

I understand the feelings of critics asked to come up with the ten best films of any year, who say, Ten? Ten's…

— Edward Jay Epstein

What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“Unless one is willing to believe that the Putin regime acted out of purely altruistic motives in exfiltrating this American intelligence worker…

— Edward Jay Epstein

I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience…

— Edward Jay Epstein

The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound…

— Edward Jay Epstein

Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“Greenwald told the Associated Press that the documents that Snowden had taken from the NSA constituted “the instruction manual for how the…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“Snowden’s penetration went beyond whistle-blowing, however. In the vast number of files he copied were documents that contained the NSA’s most sensitive…

— Edward Jay Epstein

We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that…

— Edward Jay Epstein

The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they…

— Edward Jay Epstein