If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

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.

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

Experience first, then intellectualize.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

I'm not a big TV guy, though.

Let's put it this way: If a raccoon can carry a movie, then they believe maybe even a woman can.

Pressure is part of what we do. It's always present.