Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

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.

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.

Never design anything that cannot be made.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.