By summer of 1966, the national scene was marked by insurrection on the campus, riots in the streets, rise in women's liberation, protest of the young, doubts about the institution of marriage, abandonment of old guiding slogans, and the crumbling of social traditions. It would have been foolish to believe that movies, that most creative of art forms, could have remained unaffected by the change and torment in our society. The result of all this was the emergence of a 'new kind' of American movie - frank and open, and made by filmmakers subject to very few self-imposed restraints.

I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.

I knew that the mix of new social currents, the irresistible force of creators determined to make 'their' films and the possible intrusion of government into t…

Fair use is not in the law.

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissanc…

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

Like Freud, Hitchcock diagnosed the discontents that chafe and rankle beneath the decorum of civilization. Like Picasso or Dali, he registered the phenomenolog…