“If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.” IfsFeelsTestsVirtuous Book:Hooked Source: Hooked
“An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.” FeelsIdeasEnoughAbleShareBuiltDrunkExcitementGiddyGetting Drunk Book:Movie love: complete reviews 1988-1991 Source: Movie love: complete reviews 1988-1991
“I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.” KnowsWorldFeelsPersonsI CanSometimesSpecialTheater Author:Pauline Kael
“The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.” PeopleFeelsStoriesDreamRomanceMeetingsScreensFilms And Movies Book:For Keeps Source: For Keeps
“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.” FeelsBelieveCareLostCitiesAlivePossibilityTheatreContactDullHopelessnessGood MovieSlippingFunkFilms And Movies Author:Pauline Kael