Theres evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. – Mark Rydell
Its sad – its sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But its hard to argue with those kinds of grosses. – Mark Rydell
Its very difficult to break into motion pictures, but its oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. – Mark Rydell
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. – Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970