James, Clive quotes
1939 Australian-Born Writer Satirist Broadcaster and CriticAs a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive
Critics and Criticism
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
James, Clive
Cinema
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
James, Clive
Literary Criticism
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
James, Clive
Television
Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
James, Clive
Worry