There Is Something Spurious About The Very

Vulgarity Is Not As Destructive To An Artist As Snobbery.

It Is A Depressing Fact That Americans Tend To Confuse Morality And Art (to The Detriment Of Both) And That, Among The Educated, Morality Tends To Mean Social Consciousness.

Moviemaking Is So Male-dominated Now That They Think They’re Being Pro-feminine When They Have Women Punching Each Other Out.

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.