When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.

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

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

Her only flair is in her nostrils.