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Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.
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One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
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The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
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Her only flair is in her nostrils.
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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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