Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

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

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.