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A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
You must read a lot of personal essays - you needn't reinvent the wheel.
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.
Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
One of the most visually beautiful movies you can see on the big screen.
tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.
The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.
Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free.
In the world of bad movies, 'Death to Smoochy' is a towering achievement.
We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.
Probably the worst thing that ever happened to the movies was the megahit.
There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.
My entire generation has grown up in the shadow of one movie: 'Star Wars.'
The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.
I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didnt stop till it was over.
The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died?
I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over.
The movies are celluloid hemorrhoids. No, worse: They're celluloid Bon Jovi.
If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.
What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.
Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.
I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.
If somebody wants to attack my work, that's one thing - that, I'll respond to.
There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.
There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.
I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.
Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.
I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again.
When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.
One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.
We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.
If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.
The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.
Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.
Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.