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.

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

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

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.

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

If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.