Delusional Quote by David Edelstein Download Open image “The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.” — David Edelstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delusional Delusional Hype Hype Hype Metaphor Metaphor Movie Movie Metaphor
If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something. — Frank Spotnitz Copy Share Image
I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall. — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful. — Derek Luke Copy Share Image
If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could either be… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
The movie not only about what story you're telling and who you're looking at. It's mostly about how you're telling it and how you're… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short that she… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors,… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first made a… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In utopia, rule by masterminds is both necessary and necessarily primitive, for it excludes so much that is known to man and about man.… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
When someone is delusional, there is no point wasting time responding to their delusions. — Kourtney Kardashian Copy Share Image
I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline. — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
“free will (noun): A delusional idea that humans are in control of their own destiny and not subject to the benevolent rule of The… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing. — Scott Jurek Copy Share Image
“Call me a pussy if you want. Delusional, impractical, whatever. But, I know myself, and that shit’s called survival. The bad in me, it… — Misha Horne Copy Share Image