Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

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

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.

I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

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