What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

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.

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.

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.

Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.

Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

You know you've made it when you can dye your hair blue.

As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

Homeopathy for me are effective natural remedies that have no side effects.