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

The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

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.