Good Movies Make You Care, Make You

What's Disgusting About The Dirty Harry Movies Is That Eastwood Plays This Angry Tension As Righteous Indignation.

Movies Are A Combination Of Art And Mass Medium, But Television Is So Single In Its Purpose-selling-that It Operates Without That Painful, Poignant Mixture Of Aspiration And Effort And Compromise.

Irresponsibility Is Part Of The Pleasure Of All Art; It Is The Part The Schools Cannot Recognize.

If It Took Some Effort To See Old Movies, We Might Try To Find Out Which Were The Good Ones, And If People Saw Only The Good Ones Maybe They Would Still Respect Old Movies. As It Is, People Sit And Watch Movies That Audiences Walked Out On Thirty Years Ago.

Writers Who Go To Hollywood Still Follow The Classic Pattern: Either You Get Disgusted By 'them' And You Leave Or You Want The Money And You Become Them.