I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.

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

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 make art.