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

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

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.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

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