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.

Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense.

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.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.