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

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

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.

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