Mick LaSalle quotes

“Outlandish lyrics sung by smiling people in perfect harmony. Has that edge of surprise...a little nuts and really funny.”
-- Mick LaSalle

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“To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated...”
-- Mick LaSalle

Source : Mick LaSalle (2012). “The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses”, p.7, Stanford University Press

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“Guy Ritchie is the worst screenwriter in the world, but, to be fair, he is not the worst director. He is only the worst director of the people who actually get to make movies. As we speak, there are human beings walking the Earth -- perhaps as many as a half dozen of them -- with less directorial talent, but they've been safely diverted into other activities.”
-- Mick LaSalle

Source : "Review: Weak Ritchie hurts 'Sherlock Holmes'" by Mick LaSalle, www.sfgate.com. December 25, 2009.

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“Bill Maher does something amazing in Religulous. He makes Michael Moore look incredibly likable in comparison.”
-- Mick LaSalle

Source : "Film review: 'Religulous' - comic on a crusade" by Mick LaSalle, www.sfgate.com. October 3, 2008.

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“Before the code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held down professional positions without apologizing for their self-sufficiency, and in general acted the way many of us think woman acted only after 1969.”
-- Mick LaSalle

Source : Mick LaSalle (2014). “Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood”, p.1, Macmillan

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“If the first ‘Hangover’ movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix of comedy and drama, a complete waste of time, with exactly one good joke in the entire movie. It comes in the first minute. After that, you can leave.”
-- Mick LaSalle

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“To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.”
-- Mick LaSalle

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“If the first ‘Hangover’ movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix of comedy and drama, a complete waste of time, with exactly one good joke in the entire movie. It comes in the first minute. After that, you can leave.”
-- Mick LaSalle

#Drama Quotes #Hangover Quotes #Two Quotes

“When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.”

“What do you do when you see a man masturbating at a salad baran actual salad shooterbut wait, I'm single, we're both at the salad bar, we have a lot in common. I like fresh produce, he likes to get fresh with produce. I like nuts on my salad, he likes to nut on his salad.”

“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.”

“No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.”

“I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was there, but I was putting away boxes and looking at the kids on the covers. It felt like windows into these seemingly perfect lives.”

“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.”