Top 30 Sarris Quotes
#1. Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.
Jayme K.
#2. Ian," Bones drew out warningly.
He waved a hand. "Stop growling, Crispin. I'm well over my former attraction to your wife, but the point remains that I'm stunning."
With that, he got out of the car and sauntered off with his open shirt flapping behind him like twin mini capes.
Jeaniene Frost
#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. It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.
Henri Michaux
#7. Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice.
Peter York
#8. Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.
Holly Near
#9. Do you even know who I am? Seriously, tell me, because I don't.
Gary Busey
#10. Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.
Andrew Sarris
#11. Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit ... They have to fit in context.
James J. Kilpatrick
#12. 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
#14. Ransom knew he'd regret the words he was about to speak. Because they were the decent thing to do, and if there was one thing he'd learned in his life, it was that every time he did the decent thing, he paid for it later.
Tessa Dare
#16. 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
#17. The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.
Andrew Sarris
#18. 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
#19. You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
Anne Lamott
#20. If it rained knowledge, I'd hold out my hand; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it.
Boswell
#21. 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
#22. I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.
Andrew Sarris
#23. There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.
Andrew Sarris
#24. 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
#25. I mean, you can't be a revolutionary after the revolution, can you? Didn't we all struggle so that kids like Lil wouldn't have to?
Cory Doctorow
#26. A majority of my YouTube friends I've made because I made a trip down to California and literally tweeted them saying, 'Hey! Come over - let's shoot something!' And then two strangers will just meet up, talk, and shoot something.
Lilly Singh
#27. 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
#28. Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.
Robert Kiyosaki
#29. 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
#30. Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.
Andrew Sarris
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