What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

Her only flair is in her nostrils.

In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.