“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have …” — Pauline Kael

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.