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Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

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Pauline Kael

An artist must either give up art or develop.

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Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

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The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

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If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

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Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

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Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

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