It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.

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.

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

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

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

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

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.