This Movie Is A Toupee Made Up

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

The Words "kiss Kiss Bang Bang" Which I Saw On An Italian Movie Poster, Are Perhaps The Briefest Statement Imaginable Of The Basic Appeal Of Movies

The Problem With A Popular Art Form Is That Those Who Want Something More Are In A Hopeless Minority Compared With The Millions Who Are Always Seeing It For The First Time, Or For The Reassurance And Gratification Of Seeing The Conventions Fulfilled Again.

Economy, Speed, Nervousness, And Desperation Produce The Final Wasteful, Semi-incoherent Movies We See.

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.