Good Movies Make You Care,

In A Foreign Country People Don't Expect You To Be Just Like Them, But In Los Angeles, Which Is Infiltrating The World, They Don't Consider That You Might Be Different Because They Don't Recognize Any Values Except Their Own. And Soon There May Not Be Any Others.

The Slender, Swift Bruce Lee Was The Fred Astaire Of Martial Arts, And Many Of The Fights That Could Be Merely Brutal Come Across As Lightning-fast Choreography.

Since I Have An Aversion To Movies In Which People Say Grace At The Dinner Table (not To The Practice But To How Movies Use It To Establish The Moral Strength Of A Household), The Opening Night Montage Of Sunday-night Supper In One Home After Another In Waxahachie, Texas In 1935 - A Whole Community Saying Grace Made Me Expect The Worst.

Good Movies Make You Care, Make You Believe In Possibilities Again. If Somewhere In The Hollywood-entertainment World Someone Has Managed To Break Through With Something That Speaks To You, Then It Isn’t All Corruption. The Movie Doesn’t Have To Be Great; It Can Be Stupid And Empty And You Can Still Have The Joy Of A Good Performance, Or The Joy In Just A Good Line. An Actor’s Scowl, A Small Subversive Gesture, A Dirty Remark That Someone Tosses Off With A Mock-innocent Face, And The World Makes A Little Bit Of Sense.

Watching Old Movies Is Like Spending An Evening With Those People Next Door. They Bore Us, And We Wouldn't Go Out Of Our Way To See Them; We Drop In On Them Because They're So Close. If It Took Some Effort To See Old Movies, We Might Try To Find Out Which Were The Good Ones, And If People Saw Only The Good Ones Maybe They Would Still Respect Old Movies. As It Is, People Sit And Watch Movies That Audiences Walked Out On Thirty Years Ago. Like Lot's Wife, We Are Tempted To Take Another Look, Attracted Not By Evil But By Something That Seems Much More Shameful -- Our Own Innocence.