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

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

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.

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.