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.

When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

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

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

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

The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawing an audience - they're inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They're stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie - for any movie - is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up.