Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

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

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

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.