Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.

I prefer to evaluate a film on the basis of what it intends to do, not on what I think it should have done.

The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.