Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

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.

The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.

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

An artist must either give up art or develop.

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.