The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast c….

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….

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes..

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition..

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

Trash has given us an appetite for art..

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery..

Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by bei….

Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to a….

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence..

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….

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….

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

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..

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….