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

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

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

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

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

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.