Occupation: Film Critic Birth: June 19, 1919 Death: September 3, 2001
Trash has given us an appetite for art..
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 book might be written on the injustice of the just..
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..
Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough..
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….
Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons..
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….
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.….
tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic..
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence..
Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out..
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 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….
Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do..
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….
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is..
a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation..
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….
Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go..
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera..