It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

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.

Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.

When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.

Please do not mistake me for a twopenny villain. I do nothing without a purpose.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.

God's children have a limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit.

Like memories. You can make yourself believe that they have been erased. But they are there, if you look closely. If you have a wish to uncover them.

As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.

I'm way more comfortable around kids than I am people my own age.