Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

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