Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

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.

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.

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

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

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