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I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly. (Roger Ebert)
But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. View quote
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I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me. View quote
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The Academy is paranoid about its image. View quote
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I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest. View quote
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The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His. View quote
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I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence. View quote
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No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. View quote
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Most of us do not consciously look at movies. View quote
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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. View quote
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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. (Roger Ebert)
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think. View quote
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If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something. View quote
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One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments. View quote
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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. View quote
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Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival. View quote
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[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations - when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens. View quote
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Valentine's Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think it's more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do not date that person again. And if you like it, there may not be a second date. View quote
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"This sucks on so many levels." - Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought. View quote
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I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. View quote
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Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see. Eiko Ishioka's costume designs alone deserve an Oscar nomination. "They weren't at all historically accurate," grumbled a woman in the elevator after the sneak preview, as if lots of documentation exists about the wardrobes of the gods. She added: "I guess that's what we deserve for using free tickets we got at a Blackhawks game." (Roger Ebert)
Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy. Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience. View quote
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No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out. View quote
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Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance. View quote
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We can laugh at comedies like this for two reasons: Because we feel superior to the characters, or because we pity or like them. I do not much like laughing down at people, which is why the comedies of Adam Sandler make me squirmy (most people, I know, laugh because they like him). In the case of Napoleon Dynamite, I certainly don't like him, but then the movie makes no attempt to make him likable. Truth is, it doesn't even try to be a comedy. It tells his story and we are supposed to laugh because we find humor the movie pretends it doesn't know about. View quote
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