I’m Frequently Asked Why I Don’t Write

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

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

Reality, Like God And History, Tends To Direct People To Wherever They Want To Go.

We Will Never Know The Extent Of The Damage Movies Are Doing To Us, But Movie Art, It Appears, Thrives On Moral Chaos. When The Country Is Paralyzed, The Popular Culture May Tell Us Why. After Innocence, Winners Become Losers. Movies Are Probably Inuring Us To Corruption; The Sellout Is The Hero-survivor For Our Times.

Movies Have Been Doing So Much Of The Same Thing - In Slightly Different Ways - For So Long That Few Of The Possibilities Of This Great Hybrid Art Have Yet Been Explored.