Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

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

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

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