just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you. — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull. — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty. — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic. — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So lets just wish each other a bileless New… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins,… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She fusses and fumes and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image