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

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

In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

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

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.