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Her only flair is in her nostrils.
Trash has given us an appetite for art.
Great movies are rarely perfect movies.
An artist must either give up art or develop.
Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.
Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.
This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.
I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.
I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.
tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?
If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.
Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?
Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.
Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.
There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.
The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.
Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.
Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.
If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.
For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.
When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.