5 Quotes by Robert Warshow

In its initial character, the gangster film is simply one example of the movies' constant tendency to create fixed dramatic patterns that can be repeated indefinitely with a reasonable expectation of profit.

The gangster is the man of the city,with the city's language and knowledge,with its queer and dishonest skillsand its terrible daring,carrying his life in his hands like a placard,like a club.

A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man.

Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking... History may kill you, it is true, but you have taken the right attitude, you will have been intelligent and humane and suitably melancholy to the end.