Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them..

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do i….

He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creat….

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

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….

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

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

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

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,….

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….

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..

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

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.

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

Great movies are rarely perfect movies..

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….

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….

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?.

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

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 ….

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