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

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

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.

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

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.

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

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.