In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.
There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.