If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.

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

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.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

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

In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.

An artist must either give up art or develop.