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

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

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.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

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.