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

If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.

If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.

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

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies

Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.