Everyone needs money. That's why they call it money

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

It's only words... unless they're true.

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.