Century Quote by George Lucas

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

I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism…

— Sinclair Lewis

Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Much to my chagrin, I think that cinema has gone the wrong way in America because in many ways, I pioneered the use of…

— Rob Nilsson

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age…

— Wim Wenders

As a principle, I will never react to film criticisms. As long as they are part of film fraternity, whatever they say will be…

— Kamal Haasan

I decided to go to the cinema school because I thought it was a new sort of media. Nowadays, it's not anymore, but in…

— Costa-Gavras

What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and…

— Julian Fellowes

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that…

— Wim Wenders

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

— Tony Kushner

I never maligned the sanctity of cinema in my career. I always selected themes and made films with the fervent hope that they will…

— Balachandra Menon

The pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature. It's diluted…

— Richard Linklater