Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

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

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

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

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

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.