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- I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.
- I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
- There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
- Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too,…
- I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's…
- Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.
- Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.
- Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
- A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action…
- The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of…
- Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you…
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