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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
- Elected
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
- Disturbance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
- Academy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Academy is paranoid about its image.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.
- Celebrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.
- Clouds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.
- Fonda
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- Nov 07, 2020
The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.
- Nov 07, 2020
A film is a terrible thing to waste.
- Lack
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.
- Casting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's all about the casting.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are the playthings of the gods.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 out into the light with the rest of us? They may be perfectly nice, but the hoods send an uncertain statement.
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- Nov 07, 2020