I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.

The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.