Michael Cook at 2009-11-27 10:05:58:

I loved Sideways, but that scene is too on-the-nose for me. Yes, it's subtext, but it screams way too loudly that's it is REALLY IMPORTANT SUBTEXT INDEED. "I'm just like the wine, you see! Do you get it! Like the wine!!"

Films About Fiction: ‘Paper Man’ and ‘The Answer Man’ | Jeremy Russell at 2013-04-06 15:52:47:

[...] being writers also allows them to wax eloquent about things perceived as beyond the ken of everyday folks — in the case of these two films, [...]