Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that… - Roger Ebert

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

In this business one becomes a connoisseur. I can now see that [Jim] Carrey is a virtuoso, [Chris] Farley is at least hard-working, [Adam] Sandler is hopeless and Pauly Shore bypasses all categories to achieve a kind of transcendent fingernails-on-the-blackboard effect. His appeal must be limited to people whose self-esteem and social skills are so damaged that they find humor, or at least relief, in at last encountering a movie character less successful than themselves.

Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.