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.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

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

Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?