A Boat Against the Current

“When you say realism, I think of naturalism, and I think about natural acting. And when I think about natural acting, I think about natural...

“Movies are visceral as well as intellectual. Unless you give someone a CD to listen while reading a book you don’t have the same experience...

“Art controls time, it always has. From the moment someone first painted a picture, they were stopping time.”—Oscar-winning American filmmak...

“Screenplays are widely perceived as minimalist pieces of writing, bereft of the flair and texture of prose. But that's not true. A fine...

“There was a lot of pressure coming into the pandemic and during the pandemic. And release models totally changed. A lot of movies went only...

One hundred years ago this month, Harry, Albert, Sam, and John L. (Jack) Warner—a quartet who, only two decades before, had pooled their mon...

Oscar Madison [ played by Walter Matthau ] [ about his friend Felix Unger ]: "I know him. He's too nervous to kill himself. Wears ...

“I was offered big stupid movies for big stupid money and said no because mostly I thought: I will come a cropper. I had a strong sense...

" Valentine's Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think it's more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do ...

“Hollywood often goes to the same well too often. That's because the industry only has about four wells to go to.”—Joe Queenan, “ M...