Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.