A man should never neglect his family for business.
tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.
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.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Put the uncommon effort into the common task. . . make it large by doing it in a great way.
Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.
My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.