Andrew Sarris famous quotes

04-23-2025

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.
-- Andrew Sarris

#Hate #Angel #Blue
Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.
-- Andrew Sarris

#Would Be #Way #Couches
I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.
-- Andrew Sarris

#Nice #People #Directors
There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.
-- Andrew Sarris

#Looks
I never argue with people about movies.
-- Andrew Sarris

#People #Arguing
I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
-- Andrew Sarris

#Compassion #Long #Arrogant
Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.
-- Andrew Sarris

#Opinion #Reputation #Film
Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.
-- Andrew Sarris

#Passion #Years #Feelings
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.
-- Andrew Sarris

#Civilization #Class #Two
The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.
-- Andrew Sarris

#Achievement #Firsts #Artistic
Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.
-- Andrew Sarris

#America #Avant Garde #Today
The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.
-- Andrew Sarris

#Mother #Emotional #Wife
It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.
-- Andrew Sarris

#Immaturity #Cynicism #Foolish

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