Infantile Quotes

"Most everybody today that`s young is operating under the insane idea that what we`ve got going on is the best that there is. But it`s not. Current entertainment is cheap, shoddy, infantile, adolescent, not grown-up. We`re fed imagery that`s really pornographic, by people with an infantile idea of sexuality. It`s a sad and depressing thing."

Maybe every other American movie shouldn`t be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

(On Alfred Hitchcock) I think he`s a very good technician. And he has something in Psycho (1960), he had some moments. Psycho is one of his most interesting pictures because he had to make the picture very fast, with very primitive means. He had little money, and this picture tells very much about him. Not very good things. He is completely infantile, and I would like to know more - no, I don`t want to know - about his behavior with, or, rather, against women. But this picture is very interesting.

I`m just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

On the purchase of his neighborhood cinema by a radical evangelical church planning `to redeem the arts through Christian discipleship`: It`s offensive - the arts don`t require redemption. The arts exist within a morally complicated zone, unlike an evangelical church which is morally infantile.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.