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Film Critic Inspirational Quotes (2260)

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Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the Witness Protection Program. If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film.
Roger Ebert
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To photograph is to confer importance.
Susan Sontag
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You become a film critic because you're interested in film. I don't know whether knowing so much about cinema leads you to make better films, but it certainly can't hurt.
Michael Haneke
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Film theory has nothing to do with film.
Roger Ebert
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If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.
John Scalzi
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...we still feel that color is hard on the eyes for so long a picture.
Frank Nugent
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
Camille Paglia
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I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
John Scalzi
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Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is how talented people make movies for 14-year-olds while retaining their self-respect.
David Edelstein
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Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.
Hilary Mantel
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For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people never talk about, don't really think about, and it's forgotten within this major thing that is thought to be this cataclysmic event of the 20th century.
Karina Longworth
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Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.
Susan Sontag
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Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Harlan Ellison
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The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.
Paul Schrader
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There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.
Molly Haskell
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When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young listener, who had hung out the window for an hour without seeing the star, questioned not Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray), but his own eyesight.
Vincent Canby
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Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.
Vincent Canby
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
Vincent Canby
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New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original.
Toni Jerrman
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Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.
Susan Sontag
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
Ed Koch
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It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.
James Agee
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American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.
Molly Haskell
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I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.
Andrew Sarris
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