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

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.

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

just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience.

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.

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.

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