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

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

We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

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

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

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