Edmund Wilson

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.