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

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

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.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers

Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish.

There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.

American fans want to meet you, and they wait for that autograph by the stage door. In the UK, it doesn't really happen that much.

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.