- With the exception of Chaplin, who managed to retain the autonomy of the great self-governing pioneers, the most distinguished directors in America were both victors and victims.
- Those superficial moralists who deplore the tendencies of certain movies to alarm them and, in the same breath, pretend that film is art, would do better to realize that, always alongside the art that pleases, "the art of seduction", springs the art of terror. Often we find pleasure in non-pleasurable forms.
- [on "The Innocents", 1961]: The movie's cardinal sin is the over-explanation of all the things James left beautifully in the dark.
- Real horror is a fragile, glass-boned thing.
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