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In The Sixties, The Recycling Of Pop Culture Turning It Into Pop Art And Camp Had Its Own Satirical Zest. Now We're Into A Different Kind Of Recycling. Moviemakers Give Movies Of The Past An Authority That Those Movies Didn't Have; They Inflate Images That May Never Have Compelled Belief, Images That Were No More Than Shorthand Gestures And They Use Them Not As Larger-than-life Jokes But As Altars.

Television Represents What Happens To A Medium When The Artists Have No Power And The Businessmen Are In Full, Unquestioned Control.

I Believe That We Respond Most And Best To Work In Any Art Form (and To Other Experience As Well) If We Are Pluralistic, Flexible, Relative In Our Judgments, If We Are Electic.

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.

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.