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

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

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

The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

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 wine and the arugula salad.

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

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

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 history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.

I’m sorry, my lady, ” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

Yesterday was a memory. Today was a hope.

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

We're a road team. We're the Pittsburgh Steelers. We have fans everywhere.