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

An artist must either give up art or develop.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.