Economy, Speed, Nervousness, And Desperation Produce The

Picasso Has A Volatile, Explosive Presence. He Seems To Take Art Back To An Earlier Function, Before The Centuries Of Museums And Masterpieces; He Is The Artist As Clown, As Conjurer, As Master Funmaker.

Art Doesn't Come In Measured Quantities: It's Got To Be Too Much Or It's Not Enough.

Citizen Kane Is Perhaps The One American Talking Picture That Seems As Fresh Now As The Day It Opened. It May Seem Even Fresher.

Good Movies Make You Care, Make You Believe In Possibilities Again. If Somewhere In The Hollywood-entertainment World Someone Has Managed To Break Through With Something That Speaks To You, Then It Isn’t All Corruption. The Movie Doesn’t Have To Be Great; It Can Be Stupid And Empty And You Can Still Have The Joy Of A Good Performance, Or The Joy In Just A Good Line. An Actor’s Scowl, A Small Subversive Gesture, A Dirty Remark That Someone Tosses Off With A Mock-innocent Face, And The World Makes A Little Bit Of Sense.

The Worst Thing About Movie-making Is That It's Like Life: Nobody Can Go Back To Correct The Mistakes.