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

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

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

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

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.

Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

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.