Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.

What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?

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.