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.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

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

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

An artist must either give up art or develop.

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.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.