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

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

When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable.

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

The average English critic is a don manque, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in…

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

I loved writing about things when I was excited about them. It's not fun writing about bad movies. I used to think it was bad for my skin. It's painful writing…