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.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

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.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

An artist must either give up art or develop.