chrishall’s Loved Quotes

Movie criticism to be of any use whatever must go beyond formal analysis - which in movies is generally a disguised form of subjective reaction to meanings and implications, anyway.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

Movies—a tawdry corrupt art for a tawdry corrupt world—fit the way we feel.

For several decades now educated people have been condescending toward the children, the shopgirls, all those with “humdrum” or “impoverished” lives - the mass audience - who turned to movies for “ready-made” dreams. The educated might admit that they sometimes went to the movies designed for the infantile mass audience - the number of famous people who relax with detective fiction makes this admission easy - but presumably they were not “taken in”.

Many moviegoers and video viewers say they do not "like" black and white films. In my opinion, they are cutting themselves off from much of the mystery and beauty of the movies.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

That's because we're uncool. And while women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don't have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter.