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

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.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

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.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

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.