All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between.

The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She fusses and fumes and she carps and complains. That's because Lucy cares. And it's the caring that counts.

It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.