There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'
Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.
I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.
I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.
I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.
I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
