A Steady Diet Of Mass Culture Is

A Book Might Be Written On The Injustice Of The Just.

We Read Critics For The Perceptions, For What They Tell Us That We Didn't Fully Grasp When We Saw The Work. The Judgments We Can Usually Make For Ourselves.

He [bernardo Bertolucci] Has The Kind Of Talent That Breaks One's Heart: Where Can It Go, What Will Happen To It? In This Country We Encourage 'creativity' Among The Mediocre, But Real Bursting Creativity Appalls Us. We Put It Down As Undisciplined, As Somehow 'too Much.' Well, Before The Revolution Is Too Much And That Is What Is Great About It. Art Doesn't Come In Measured Quantities: It's Got To Be Too Much Or It's Not Enough.

I Felt As If I Had Attended The Funeral Of Someone I Didn't Know.

Movies, Far More Than The Traditional Arts, Are Tied To Big Money. Without A Few Independent Critics, There's Nothing Between The Public And The Advertisers.