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.

tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

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

An artist must either give up art or develop.

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

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.

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.