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

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

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.

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.

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.