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Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives. (Roger Ebert)
Time is what the depressed and panicked lack. View quote
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Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius. View quote
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We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition. View quote
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To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated? View quote
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Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems. View quote
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If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough? View quote
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James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence. View quote
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That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are. View quote
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It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. View quote
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Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life. (Roger Ebert)
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. View quote
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We are the playthings of the gods. View quote
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If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad. View quote
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It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics. View quote
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Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. View quote
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If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen. View quote
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By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested. View quote
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Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. View quote
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All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions. View quote
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Sometimes it's all about the casting. (Roger Ebert)
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives. View quote
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I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring. View quote
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One of the remarkable things about Russ Meyer's films is that they continue to live and play, long after the other work of the soft-core era has been forgotten. That is partly because of their craftsmanship, partly because of Meyer's leading ladies, and partly because of a spirit of paramilitary commitment that can be sensed as the cast and crew struggle through rugged terrain to enact their rural melodramas. But the central reason, I believe, is that Meyer is an auteur whose every frame reflects his own obsessions. Like all serious artists, he doesn't allow any space between his work and his dream. View quote
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When I think about the kinds of movies that make me cry, that make tears come to my eyes, I usually don't think about sad films. Sad films, I sort of just look at it. It's movies that are about selflessness, that are about sacrifice, about humans that believe in the good of the human race that sometimes move me. View quote
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