An Artist Must Either Give Up Art

For Some Strange Reason We Don't Go To Charming, Light Movies Anymore. People Expect A Movie To Be Heavy And Turgid, Like "american Beauty." We've Become A Heavy-handed Society.

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 You Use Hollywood As The Test Tissue For Mankind, What Could The Prognosis Be?

Since I Have An Aversion To Movies In Which People Say Grace At The Dinner Table (not To The Practice But To How Movies Use It To Establish The Moral Strength Of A Household), The Opening Night Montage Of Sunday-night Supper In One Home After Another In Waxahachie, Texas In 1935 - A Whole Community Saying Grace Made Me Expect The Worst.

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.