An Artist Must Either Give Up Art

If You Think It So Easy To Be A Critic, So Difficult To Be A Poet Or A Painter Or Film Experimenter, May I Suggest You Try Both? You May Discover Why There Are So Few Critics, So Many Poets.

There Seems To Be An Assumption That If You're Offended By Movie Brutality, You Are Somehow Playing Into The Hands Of The People Who Want Censorship. But This Would Deny Those Of Us Who Don't Believe In Censorship The Use Of The Only Counter-balance: The Freedom Of The Press To Say That There's Anything Conceivably Damaging In These Films - The Freedom To Analyze Their Implications. How Can People Go On Talking About The Dazzling Brilliance Of Movies And Not Notice That The Directors Are Sucking Up To The Thugs In The Audience?

Sex Is The Great Leveler, Taste The Great Divider.

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.

Movies That Are Consciously Life-affirming Are To Be Consciously Avoided.