A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel ….

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory..

In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angele….

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for our….

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize..

Great movies are rarely perfect movies..

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out..

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to….

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see..

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know..

Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?.

What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?.

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propa….

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming….

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness..

Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth..

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down..

When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once..

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons..

Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is….