Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

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

Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

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

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.