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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.

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.

Good Movies Make You Care, Make You Believe In Possibilities Again. If Somewhere In The Hollywood-entertainment World Someone Has Managed To Break Through With Something That Speaks To You, Then It Isn’t All Corruption. The Movie Doesn’t Have To Be Great; It Can Be Stupid And Empty And You Can Still Have The Joy Of A Good Performance, Or The Joy In Just A Good Line. An Actor’s Scowl, A Small Subversive Gesture, A Dirty Remark That Someone Tosses Off With A Mock-innocent Face, And The World Makes A Little Bit Of Sense.

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.

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