Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
The hallmark of a free society is that I may totally disapprove of what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it until I die.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.
A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo. ' You can't beat a good poo joke.
What a greater crime. Than loss of time.
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.