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It is fun to see a comedy in which every single joke hasn't been packed into the trailer.
Donald Trump didn't just throw out the playbook, he set fire to it. And America loved it.
I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?
That it might turn into music that would heighten emotion, but not be important in itself.
Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.
There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.
What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.
Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?
My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice.
After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.
It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.
If someone in my family is getting emotionally bent out of shape, I've had to learn to adapt.
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?
I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.
Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.
As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.
The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new
I specialize in cool inside movie news. Specifically, the news from movies that excite us fans.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.
It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.
The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich.
If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you dont fight back it hurts forever.
And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.
I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.
The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.
If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.
The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.
It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them.
Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along.
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.