I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

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

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

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.