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Film Critic Inspirational Quotes (2260)

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Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.
Andrew Sarris
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There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.
Andrew Sarris
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I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
Andrew Sarris
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Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.
Andrew Sarris
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Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.
Andrew Sarris
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The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.
Andrew Sarris
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The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.
Andrew Sarris
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Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.
Susan Sontag
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Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Camille Paglia
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What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.
Roger Ebert
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Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.
Andre Bazin
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Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.
Andre Bazin
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The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
Andre Bazin
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All films are born free and equal.
Andre Bazin
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Photography does not create eternity, as art does it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
Andre Bazin
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Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.
Camille Paglia
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I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
Antonin Artaud
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An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
George Jean Nathan
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Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.
Susan Sontag
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Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an anonymous person in this American culture.
Frederic Tuten
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Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.
Rudolf Arnheim
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I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media is suffering.
Alonso Duralde
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
Ed Koch
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There are several types of movie space, the three most important being: (1) the field of the screen, (2) the psychological space of the actor, and (3) the area of experience and geography that the film covers.
Manny Farber
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