Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

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

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

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense.

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 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