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

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

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.

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

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

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