Movies suddenly became "film" and "cinema" an "art form" and terribly chic. . .

Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room with- out managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between.

A dumb blonde who falls for a huge plastic finger.

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania in equal parts

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!