If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

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.

..he wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

People hate what they know and fear what they don't.

We have created our own fake world in order to satisfy our imagination through the illusion.

In the present every day is a miracle.

QUOTES BOUQUET: The Brightest Future Will Always Be Based On A Forgotten Past.

You are someone worth loving

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.