We're retreating to the film equivalent of macaroni and cheese.

This film is at its best when it is most direct and speaks from the heart, when it shows lives torn apart.

I have a problematic relationship with some of Michael Moore's work. There's no such job as a standup journalist.

I'd be thinking, short term, people want comedy, but who's to say where the public's mindset will be a few years from now. In the Cold War people couldn't get enough science fiction.

It was surprising for a picture called Elf. It was actually edgy. I think the nice thing about the film is that my mother laughed, my kids laughed, my friends laughed, and usually when they call something a family movie, I think, "uh-oh! I'll have to suffer through it."

What you have to understand is that Michael's film isn't really a documentary. It's a portrait,