What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?

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

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

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.

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.