It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

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

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

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

Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawing an audience - they're inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They're stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie - for any movie - is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.