An artist must either give up art or develop.

It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

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

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.