Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

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.

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.

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him.

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you'll do well.

Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

People? People have been obsolete for years, They've made the world a place where there's no room left for their own kind.

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.