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.

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

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.

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

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

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

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.