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.

Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.

I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

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.

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