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.

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

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.

When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

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

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.