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- Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.
- To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
- Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and…
- Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice…
- The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance…
- Valentines Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think its more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do not date…
- An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then…
- I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to…
- When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have a voyeuristic experience;…
- 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…
- My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of…
- We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were…
- Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley...…
- I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the…
- Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
- When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I…
- Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All…
- 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…
- Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.
- The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
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