Appliances Quote by David Denby

Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.

— David Denby

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

— David Denby

“If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and…

— David Denby

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

— David Denby

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by…

— David Denby

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

— David Denby

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white…

— David Denby

“Whether white, black, Asian, or Latino, American students rarely arrive at college as habitual readers, which means that few of them have more than…

— David Denby

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

— David Denby

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

— David Denby

“The trouble with today's snarky pipsqueaks who break off a sentence or two, or who write a couple of mean paragraphs, is that they…

— David Denby

Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River,…

— David Denby