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.

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

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.

The secret of all greatness is to discover what you were born to do in life and then do it.

Yet feminism has never killed anyone. Machismo, it kills every day.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.

The comics were not only stories to enjoy for me they were drawings that possessed me.

When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both.

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much.