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.

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

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

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

An artist must either give up art or develop.