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.

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

Her only flair is in her nostrils.

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

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

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.