The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself..

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

Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in ….

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism..

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….

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new.

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have..

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real f….

The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawin….

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

Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral….

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art ha….

In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recyclin….

What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation..

Her only flair is in her nostrils..

An artist must either give up art or develop..

It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a directo….

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising..

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's….