For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.

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

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

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.