Great Movies Are Rarely Perfect Movies.

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.

Economy, Speed, Nervousness, And Desperation Produce The Final Wasteful, Semi-incoherent Movies We See.

For Perhaps Most Americans, Tv Is An Apppliance, Not To Be Used Selectively But To Be Turned On - There's Always Something To Watch.

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.

Tasteful And Colossal Are - In Movies, At Least - Basically Antipathetic.