An Artist Must Either Give Up Art

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.

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

Television Represents What Happens To A Medium When The Artists Have No Power And The Businessmen Are In Full, Unquestioned Control.

Since I Have An Aversion To Movies In Which People Say Grace At The Dinner Table (not To The Practice But To How Movies Use It To Establish The Moral Strength Of A Household), The Opening Night Montage Of Sunday-night Supper In One Home After Another In Waxahachie, Texas In 1935 - A Whole Community Saying Grace Made Me Expect The Worst.

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