a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

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

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

He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the Revolution is too much and that is what is great about it. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

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

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