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

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

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

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture.

Culture with us ends in headache.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

Apple released the upgraded version of the iPhone 4, called the iPhone 4S. I think the S stands for suckers.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.