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.….

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant m….

Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a fine actor probably because wh….

Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider..

Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again..

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher..

I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when….

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing….

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to ….

If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous..

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided..

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too..

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control..

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program..

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things..

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch..

Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the adve….

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to me….

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is..

In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you ….

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion..