'Chinatown'

I don't dig detective stories very much. If detectives are so stinking calm, collected and smarter than everyone else, why aren't they curing cancer or doing heart surgery or teaching?

It's interesting that Jack Nicholson has worked with such an array of directors in his career: Stanley Kubrick ("The Shining"), Martin Scorsese ("The Departed"), Tim Burton ("Batman," "Mars Attacks"), Roman Polanski ("Chinatown"), Milos Forman ("One Flew Over ..."), Sean Penn ("The Pledge") and Elia Kazan ("The Last Tycoon").

It's hard to believe he's 71 years old. He's going to die one of these tragic days and this country won't know what to do with itself.