Protagonists Are Always Loners, Almost By Definition.

In Show Business There's Not Much Point In Asking Yourself If Someone Really Likes You Or If He Just Thinks You Can Be Useful To Him, Because There's No Difference.

Irresponsibility Is Part Of The Pleasure Of All Art; It Is The Part The Schools Cannot Recognize.

Movies Are Our Cheap And Easy Expression, The Sullen Art Of Displaced Persons.

Since I Have An Aversion To Movies In Which People Say Grace At The Dinner Table (not To The Practice But To How Movies Use It To Establish The Moral Strength Of A Household), The Opening Night Montage Of Sunday-night Supper In One Home After Another In Waxahachie, Texas In 1935 - A Whole Community Saying Grace Made Me Expect The Worst.

The Words "kiss Kiss Bang Bang" Which I Saw On An Italian Movie Poster, Are Perhaps The Briefest Statement Imaginable Of The Basic Appeal Of Movies