Great Movies Are Rarely Perfect Movies.

If There's Anything To Learn From The History Of Movies, It's That Corruption Leads To Further Corruption, Not To Innocence.

There Is, In Any Art, A Tendency To Turn One's Own Preferences Into A Monomaniac Theory.

Movies Are So Rarely Great Art That If We Cannot Appreciate Great Trash We Have Very Little Reason To Be Interested In Them.

Before Seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I Was Afraid It Was Going To Be One Of Those Simple, Natural Films About Childhood Which I Generally Try To Avoid I'm Just Not Good Enough To Go To Them. But This Series Of Sketches On The General Theme Of The Resilience Of Children Turns Out To Be That Rarity A Poetic Comedy That's Really Funny.

The Critical Task Is Necessarily Comparative, And Younger People Do Not Truly Know What Is New