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

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

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.

An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.

If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.

Her only flair is in her nostrils.

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