Kicked in the ribs, the press says 'art' when 'ouch' would be more appropriate.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Movies are so rarely great art, that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them.

And for the greatest movie artists where there is a unity of technique and subject, one doesn't need to talk about technique much because it has been subsumed …

'O frate,' disse, 'chesti qu'io ti cerno col ditto,' e addito un spirto innanzi, 'fu miglior fabbro del parlar materno. Versi d'amore e prose di romanzi soverc…

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

They took your life apart And called your failures art They were wrong, though They won't know 'Til tomorrow