I Felt As If I Had Attended

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.

Watching Old Movies Is Like Spending An Evening With Those People Next Door. They Bore Us, And We Wouldn't Go Out Of Our Way To See Them; We Drop In On Them Because They're So Close. 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. Like Lot's Wife, We Are Tempted To Take Another Look, Attracted Not By Evil But By Something That Seems Much More Shameful -- Our Own Innocence.

Movies Are So Rarely Great Art That If We Cannot Appreciate Great Trash We Have Very Little Reason To Be Interested In Them.

Movies That Are Consciously Life-affirming Are To Be Consciously Avoided.

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.