The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.

We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images.