Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

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.

If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

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