Critic Quotes

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me.
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
The more minimal art, the more maximum the explaination.
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.
After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.
I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.
In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.
Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?
John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.
That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.
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