No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world. - Kenneth Tynan

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.