Good Movies Make You Care, Make You

Citizen Kane Is Perhaps The One American Talking Picture That Seems As Fresh Now As The Day It Opened. It May Seem Even Fresher.

A Good Movie Can Take You Out Of Your Dull Funk And The Hopelessness That So Often Goes With Slipping Into A Theatre; A Good Movie Can Make You Feel Alive Again, In Contact, Not Just Lost In Another City. Good Movies Make You Care, Make You Believe In Possibilities Again.

The Problem With A Popular Art Form Is That Those Who Want Something More Are In A Hopeless Minority Compared With The Millions Who Are Always Seeing It For The First Time, Or For The Reassurance And Gratification Of Seeing The Conventions Fulfilled Again.

I Am Mystified. I Know Only One Person Who Voted For Nixon.

The Words "kiss Kiss Bang Bang" Which I Saw On An Italian Movie Poster, Are Perhaps The Briefest Statement Imaginable Of The Basic Appeal Of Movies