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

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.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

It’s just so strange.You used to love me, and now you’re a strangerwho happens to know allof my secrets.

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.

Only when you are able to hear the songs of a tree will you be able to understand the magnificence and magic of life.

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

Life is about coming back and mastering how to come back.

Everything that happens in America happens in New York.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.