The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

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.

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.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

Then, only then would she realize that the life that she created will extinguish with nothing to offer but the sorrow that she harvested in our souls and the holes that she dug in our hearts.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

I would rather lose half of our clients than half of our clients' money.

This is teamwork; this is what it's all about.

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.