Movies are my obsession. I seldom live in the real world. In fact, along with Annie Hall , there are only four others that took home the little gold statue for laughter. After all, they gave a Best Picture award to Forrest Gump , but not to Citizen Kane .
Comedies are usually crowd-pleasers, playing to our most superficial sensibilities.
Me, I happen to love drama. Even so, when I composed a list of all the great dramatic films in the last 100 years, I was staring at nearly 60 titles. I grudgingly crossed out great ones like How Green Was My Valley and The Bicycle Thief , winnowing it down by half. When I got to 30 movies, I just couldn't go any lower. That's when I decided to divide and conquer.