We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed,….

I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon..

The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do ab….

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artis….

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation..

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do..

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

We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images..

A book might be written on the injustice of the just..

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our ju….

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

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera..

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go..

tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic..

If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would st….

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

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….

There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship.….

Her only flair is in her nostrils..

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

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough..