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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.
It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.
Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.
We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.
Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.
When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.
We must try to contribute joy to the world... I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.
What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.
Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.
In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.
Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.
Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.
Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.
We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean.
The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.
You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.
I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance.
I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.
I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.
When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: "Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend."
Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.
Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.
If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.
Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.
I have no fear of death. We all die. I consider my remaining days to be like money in the bank. When it is all gone, I will be repossessed.
Show me a sexual practice that involves ice cubes and hot sauce, and I will show you a sexual practice that would be improved without them.
I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.
It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.
Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.
To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?
Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.
Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.
One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.
A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.
We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars.
Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.
Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.
Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.
Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.
Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.