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

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.

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.

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.

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

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