I Am Mystified. I Know Only One

Movies Are Our Cheap And Easy Expression, The Sullen Art Of Displaced Persons.

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

For A While In The Twenties And Thirties, Art Was Talked About As A Substitute For Religion; Now B Movies Are A Substitute For Religion.

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

He [bernardo Bertolucci] Has The Kind Of Talent That Breaks One's Heart: Where Can It Go, What Will Happen To It? In This Country We Encourage 'creativity' Among The Mediocre, But Real Bursting Creativity Appalls Us. We Put It Down As Undisciplined, As Somehow 'too Much.' Well, Before The Revolution Is Too Much And That Is What Is Great About It. Art Doesn't Come In Measured Quantities: It's Got To Be Too Much Or It's Not Enough.