This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

