If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.