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.

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

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

Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.