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.

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

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

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.