Tasteful And Colossal Are - In Movies,

There Is Something Spurious About The Very Term 'a Movie Made For Tv,' Because What You Make For Tv Is A Tv Program.

There Is, In Any Art, A Tendency To Turn One's Own Preferences Into A Monomaniac Theory.

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.

If There Is Any Test That Can Be Applied To Movies, It's That The Good Ones Never Make You Feel Virtuous.

Protagonists Are Always Loners, Almost By Definition.