Movies Are So Rarely Great Art That

Picasso Has A Volatile, Explosive Presence. He Seems To Take Art Back To An Earlier Function, Before The Centuries Of Museums And Masterpieces; He Is The Artist As Clown, As Conjurer, As Master Funmaker.

Imagining [the Wizard Of Oz] Without Judy Garland Is A Bit Like Dancing On Wet Cement: You Can Do It, But Why Would You Want To?

What Is Getting Older If It Isn't Learning More Ways That You're Vulnerable?

All Our Advertising Is Propaganda, Of Course, But It Has Become So Much A Part Of Our Life, Is So Pervasive, That We Just Don't Know What It Is Propaganda For.

It's Sometimes Discouraging To See All Of A Director's Movies, Because There's So Much Repetition. The Auteurists Took This To Be A Sign Of A Director's Artistry, That You Could Recognize His Movies. But It Can Also Be A Sign That He's A Hack.