For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

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.

Doing life without God is not doing life.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

Never underestimate a dumb question.

Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]

Empty Chambers make foolish maides.

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.