Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.

To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.

Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.