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?

If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

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

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.

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.