Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.

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

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

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.