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It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.
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No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.
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[Pauline Kael] had no theory, no rules, no guidelines, no objective standards. You couldn’t apply her ‘approach’ to a film. With her it was all personal.
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The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures - because they think they've made one.
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I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
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Inside every sadist is a masochist, cringing to taste his own medicine.
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In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.
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Never marry someone who doesn’t love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you.
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When, in a free society, the press is criticized for negativity, that almost always means it has dared to question the policies of the party in power. 'Patriotism,' Samuel Johnson said, 'is the last refuge of a scoundrel.' He could have been speaking of those who use it to shield themselves from dissent.
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