Good Movies Make You Care, Make You

Is There Something In Druggy Subjects That Encourages Directors To Make Imitation Film Noir? Film Noir Itself Becomes An Addiction.

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.

Watching Old Movies Is Like Spending An Evening With Those People Next Door. They Bore Us, And We Wouldn't Go Out Of Our Way To See Them; We Drop In On Them Because They're So Close. 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. Like Lot's Wife, We Are Tempted To Take Another Look, Attracted Not By Evil But By Something That Seems Much More Shameful -- Our Own Innocence.

Being Creative Is Having Something To Sell, Or Knowing How To Sell Something, Or Having Sold Something. It Has Taken Over What We Used To Mean By Being "wised Up" Knowing The Tricks, The Shortcuts.