Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

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.

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.

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

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

Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.