Movies Have Been Doing So Much Of

Television Represents What Happens To A Medium When The Artists Have No Power And The Businessmen Are In Full, Unquestioned Control.

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

What's Disgusting About The Dirty Harry Movies Is That Eastwood Plays This Angry Tension As Righteous Indignation.

Allowing For Exceptions, There Is Still One Basic Difference Between The Traditional Arts And The Mass-media Arts: In The Traditional Arts, The Artist Grows; In A Mass Medium, The Artist Decays Profitably.

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