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

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.

Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.

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.

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

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

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.