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.

Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

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.

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

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