You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.