When I started on the job, I thought I would do it for perhaps five years. Now it has become a lifetime. I have become convinced in the process that the cinema is the best medium yet devised for observing, sharing, and shaping human experience. We are in the first days. What will The Godfather, La Dolce Vita, Vertigo, Raging Bull, or Rules of the Game tell those who live five hundred years from now? Will Buster Keaton still be funny? What would we give to have movies from five hundred years ago?
