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.

Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.

When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

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.