I’m a movie and television fan and have been my entire life. When I was in 10th grade, I took a film study class that simultaneously made me love and hate movies. It taught me to watch for things that were out of place such as power lines in the old west, phones, lights, or anything that shouldn’t be there.

To see the microphone above an actor’s head is the hate part of film study. The love part is when it’s a beautiful picture; the story and acting could be terrible but the scenes make you cry-for example, the War for the Planet of the Apes, good story but an even better “world” that was created.

The other part of loving movies and television shows is good writing.

As a writer, a line means everything to make the story memorable. I have lines saved in notebooks, napkins, and most recently I’ve been using my phone.

Some of my favorites include mushy ones, funny ones, and ones that take my breath away. As a Star Wars fan, (R2-D2 tattoo proves it), some of my favorites include Princess Leia telling Han, “I love you,” and his famously ad-libbed line, “I know,” to one in the recent films, “Chewie, we’re home,” from The Force Awakens; both bringing a tear to my eye.

Movie lines bring back memories of who you saw the movie with, when you saw it, and some that simply hold special meaning.

“Yo, Adrian, we did it.” Rocky inspired and continues to inspire generations with the grit-SISU to us-and never-quit attitude, that is all from a movie, a story.

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” If the Wizard of Oz taught us anything, it is that we need to ask questions when something doesn’t seem right.

From my favorite sports movie, “If you build it, he will come.” For me this is about life, I hope if I build a good life he will come; that my father would have been proud.

Robin Williams had many well written lines provided to him but to me “Seize the day boys,” will always remind me that to be great, you have to make it happen and not wait for it to happen.

“Why so serious” from the late great Heath Ledger gave me chills almost as much as his disappearing pencil trick; a great talent gone but never forgotten.

I struggle with writing and want to someday create the perfect line.

This past week on a television show I watch called “The Good Doctor,” one character was discussing a memory of his daughter, (she had died years earlier), and said that he’d always imagined that, when he closes his eyes for the last time, he hopes that memory of him and her is what he sees. The other character, who’s autistic, then says, “When you’re dead I’ll come here to see you.”

Movies are my comfort, writing is my outlet for when things are tense, and both are needed now. I see on average one movie a month and write this column monthly and wouldn’t want to ever stop doing either.

The month of May will bring many changes to our household and thankfully, between now and then, there are movies to see and writing to be completed. My only hint to you is that April showers will bring May tears; sorry for the mystery but maybe, “What we got here is a failure to communicate.”