Movies Are Our Cheap And Easy Expression,

We Will Never Know The Extent Of The Damage Movies Are Doing To Us, But Movie Art, It Appears, Thrives On Moral Chaos. When The Country Is Paralyzed, The Popular Culture May Tell Us Why. After Innocence, Winners Become Losers. Movies Are Probably Inuring Us To Corruption; The Sellout Is The Hero-survivor For Our Times.

There Is, In Any Art, A Tendency To Turn One's Own Preferences Into A Monomaniac Theory.

If There Is Any Test That Can Be Applied To Movies, It's That The Good Ones Never Make You Feel Virtuous.

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.

The Worst Thing About Movie-making Is That It's Like Life: Nobody Can Go Back To Correct The Mistakes.