>"A refurbished Big Lebowski is on somewhere or everywhere.

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>"A refurbished Big Lebowski is on somewhere or everywhere. I have no intention of revisiting any bowling alley. I shrivel inside each time it is mentioned. Twenty years ago, when the film was first shown, it had a freshness, also a sense of moral good and fun."

>"Then I began to be uneasy at the influence it might be having. The bad penny first dropped in San Francisco when a sweet-faced boy of twelve told me proudly that he had seen The Big Lebowski over a hundred times. His elegant mother nodded with approval. Looking into the boy’s eyes I thought I detected little bowling-shells of madness beginning to form and I guessed that one day they would explode."

>“I would love you to do something for me,” I said.

>“Anything! Anything!” the boy said rapturously."

>“You won’t like what I’m going to ask you to do,” I said.

>“Anything, sir, anything!”

>“Well,” I said, “do you think you could promise never to seeThe Big Lebowski again?”

>"He burst into tears. His mother drew himself up to an immense height. “What adreadfulthing to say to a child!” she barked, and dragged the poor kid away. Maybe she was right but I just hope the lad, now in his thirties, is not living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities."