Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.

The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreograph…

De Mille's bang-them-on-the-head-with-wild-orgies-and-imperilled-virginity style is at its ripest; the film is just about irresistible.

The action genre has always had a fascist potential, and it surfaces in this movie.

In modern art, it is undoubtedly to Cezanne that I owe the most.

Acting is one of the lesser skills man can possess. Honestly, Shirley Temple was doing it when she was four years old!

Music isn't enough. Performers aren't enough. There must be someone that loves music as much as life. For you, and remember this always, those of us with somet…