An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.

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

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.

Great movies are rarely perfect movies.