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.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

What glitters may not be gold

No poison can kill quicker than bitterness

Unless you change who you are now, you'll never get what you want. If you change who you are and how you are, then you’ll get what you want.

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Can you deep fry the bacon? Oh how I wish you would.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.

A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.