11 Quotes by David Ansen

The plethora of special effects -- some dazzling, some clumsy -- make "Harry Potter" at times resemble a generic Hollywood horror movie. That three-headed dog that stands guard over a treasure was better left to the imagination. . .

Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

Newman, with his clipped mustache and his whiskey-coated growl and his steely self-assurance, is an aristocrat of sleaze.

He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, we know about the blue eyes (which happen to be colorblind).

It has real passion, real emotion, real terror and a tactile sense of evil.

The world has lost its quintessential romantic icon.