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.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

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

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

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

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