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

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.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.