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1205 Critic Quotes

A film is a terrible thing to waste.
Film Terrible Thing Waste
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Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

Depressed Lack Panicked Time
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Sometimes it's all about the casting.

About Casting Sometimes
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In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

Acting Few Many Talented
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It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

Broke Consequences Film Find
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It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

Crazy Hollywood Movie Over
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In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'

Development Hollywood Means Title
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I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.

Big Bladder Bottle Came
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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

About Casually Experience Folks
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Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

Artists Because Crowd Drama
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A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

Actress Age Attract Cameron
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We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA

DNA Help Identifying Our
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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

Ancient Beautiful Evolved Gone
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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
Certain Funny Genius Must
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I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
About Good Movies People
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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

Character Comedy Enough Good
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Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Ever Least Nothing Romances
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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

Act Makes Sense Something
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I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

Although Audience Buddy Found
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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Boredom Death Existential Like
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Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

Being Come Creative Faces
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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.

About Contemplate Enjoy Facts
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We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

Blessed Condition First Hazardous
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Literature is the question minus the answer.

Answer Literature Minus Question
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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Arms Better Fine Gesture
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

Been Eclectic Far Fun
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The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Code Image Message Photographic
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Always Invisible Photograph See
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Ahead Alienation Day Escape
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The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
Fashion New Value
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Against Desire Fingers Had
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Any Blame Call Discourse
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Confession Lie Myth Neither
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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Image Itself Passion Public
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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Block Creates Itself Man
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

Einstein Formula Image Knowledge
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Claim Condition Contradiction Full
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Both Confront Excessive Hysteria
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Cannot Even Literature Must
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Being Clearly Deal Ending
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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Escaping Home Longest Round
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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

Ambition Full Mouth My Soul
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Am Day Establish Established
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Discovery Mistakes Portals Are
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Discovery Errors Genius His
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Art Cannot Irresponsibility Part
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Actions Best Men Thoughts
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Age Better Boldly Fade
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Forget Heaven Kingdom Like
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Abhorrent Being Church Heresy
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