Top 28 Andrew Sarris Quotes
#1. I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.
Andrew Sarris
#2. Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.
Kurt Cobain
#3. Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.
Andrew Sarris
#4. After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.
George Lucas
#5. More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.
Isabel Allende
#6. Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.
Andrew Sarris
#7. It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.
Andrew Sarris
#9. The more Viola forgot her mother, the more she missed her.
Kate Atkinson
#10. The alchemy of diamonds from the rough
is to mine every moment.
Gina Greenlee
#11. The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.
Andrew Sarris
#12. Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.
Andrew Sarris
#13. Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.
James Surowiecki
#14. The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.
Andrew Sarris
#15. I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.
Andrew Sarris
#16. There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.
Andrew Sarris
#17. I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
Andrew Sarris
#18. It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting.
Jennifer Lawrence
#19. It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.
Amanda Seyfried
#20. It takes a strong person to do their own thing and not wait for anybody else to validate their existence.
Steven Aitchison
#21. The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.
Nicholas Sparks
#22. Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.
Andrew Sarris
#23. I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.
Andrew Sarris
#24. We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.
Howard Schultz
#25. Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream. An
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#26. I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.
Colin Farrell
#27. Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.
Andrew Sarris
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