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.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.

Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.