Quotes About Moviegoing

#1. 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.

Roger Ebert

#2. There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

Wesley Morris

#3. 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

#4. Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

Wesley Morris

#5. In sum, The Green Berets was a reasonable commercial success, but a critical disaster that convinced most of the moviegoing audience under the age of thirty never to see a John Wayne movie.

Scott Eyman

#6. Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies.
Timothy Leary

H.R. Giger

#7. I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.

John Legend

#8. I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

Woody Harrelson

#9. Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

Simone Weil

#10. She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their world, and that the time apart now would be a nightmare from which they would recover - desperation buried under years of happiness.

Simon Van Booy

#11. How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. Tithing is an open door to wealth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing

Charles Dickens

#14. Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.

Leslie Jamison

#15. People think they're being saved from a Bolshevik revolution," Frunze said. "The Nazi press has them convinced that the Communists were about to launch a campaign of murder, arson, and poison in every town and village.

Ken Follett

#16. I always entertain great hopes.

Robert Frost