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

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

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

An artist must either give up art or develop.