All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.
a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.
Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.
As players, we always have a way to get back at you.
If anybody needs any help with anything, I'm prepared to help.
I received a D. Sc. from the University of London in 1992.