I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

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.

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?

The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwriting' classes that teach them the formulas for 'hit films.'

It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.