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

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

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

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

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.