One Of The Surest Signs

At The Movies, We Are Gradually Being Conditioned To Accept Violence As A Sensual Pleasure. The Directors Used To Say They Were Showing Us Its Real Face And How Ugly It Was In Order To Sensitize Us To Its Horrors. You Don't Have To Be Very Keen To See That They Are Now In Fact Desensitizing Us.

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

There Is Something Spurious About The Very Term 'a Movie Made For Tv,' Because What You Make For Tv Is A Tv Program.

Television Represents What Happens To A Medium When The Artists Have No Power And The Businessmen Are In Full, Unquestioned Control.

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.