Trash has given us an appetite for art.

Trash has given us an appetite for art

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much."