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.

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

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

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

If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.