I’m Frequently Asked Why I Don’t Write

Moviemaking Is So Male-dominated Now That They Think They’re Being Pro-feminine When They Have Women Punching Each Other Out.

Mcluhanism And The Media Have Broken The Back Of The Book Business; They've Freed People From The Shame Of Not Reading. They've Rationalized Becoming Stupid And Watching Television.

The Slender, Swift Bruce Lee Was The Fred Astaire Of Martial Arts, And Many Of The Fights That Could Be Merely Brutal Come Across As Lightning-fast Choreography.

Tasteful And Colossal Are - In Movies, At Least - Basically Antipathetic.

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.