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- We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in…
- The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.
- 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…
- Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
- A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the…
- Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not…
- In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called…
- 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…
- People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is…
- Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
- The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the work of an…
- Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
- That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.
- I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they want to come…
- All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making…
- The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when…
- Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all…
- To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep in our hearts…
More Us Quotes
- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino