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An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell
Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?
Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.
If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?
A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.
It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed.
My first paying job in Los Angeles was taking tickets at the Bing under Ron Haver.
Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.
We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.
I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.
The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit!
In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.
I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.
Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.
Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through.
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.
Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.
Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.
I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.
I spend most of my life not wanting to be found, and actually, I'm pretty good at it.
You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America.
All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.
I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because its not fair.
A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life.
Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.
I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.
If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.
Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.
That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'
It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.
The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?
I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment.
There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.
There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.
Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.
If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.
It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep.