When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

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

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

tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.