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.

The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies

What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.