- [on _Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)_] This picture was made particularly for males, who carry a portable shrine with them of their adolescence, a chalice-of-self that was better then, before the world's affairs, or - in a complex way - sex intruded.
- [re Marlon Brando's first Broadway appearance] He was wonderful. He had a way of falling [after being hit] that made you know that he'd thought about how to do it a different way from the way every other actor had ever done it, and yet his fall fit into what was going on. It wasn't merely freakish.
- [re his approach to film criticism]... a view of film as a descendant of the theater and literature, certainly sui generis but not without ancestors or cousin, to be judged by its own unique standards which are yet analogous to those of other arts: a view that is pluralistic, aesthetic but not anti-science, contemporary but not unhistorical, and humanistic.
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