What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.

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.

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

Chromatacia…society…ruled by a colortocracy…social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.

How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

Is it cynical to assume that anyone smiling is a liar and a criminal?

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

The only good thing about America is that you killed John Lennon.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.