I Felt As If I Had Attended

Great Movies Are Rarely Perfect Movies.

When A Picture Can't Make It On Its Own, The Producers Pull In A 'controversial' Message - The Way A Couple Whose Marriage Is Falling Apart Decide To Have A Baby.

Movies Are A Combination Of Art And Mass Medium, But Television Is So Single In Its Purpose-selling-that It Operates Without That Painful, Poignant Mixture Of Aspiration And Effort And Compromise.

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.

What This Generation Was Bred To At Television's Knees Was Not Wisdom, But Cynicism.