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.

Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.