A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

An artist must either give up art or develop.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.