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

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

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

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies

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.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.