Andrew Sarris Quotes

• 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

  "Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris" by Kent Jones, www.filmcomment.com. May/June 2005.

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• Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

  Andrew Sarris

  America, Avant Garde, Today

  "Andrew Sarris: the last of the highbrows" by Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

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• 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

  "Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris" by Kent Jones, www.filmcomment.com. May/June 2005.

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• La elevación emocional de la película se debe en gran medida a las extraordinariamente atractivas interpretaciones de Anne Bancroft como la esposa-madre-amante, Dustin Hoffman como el torpe Lancelot y Katherine Ross como su bella Elaine.

  Andrew Sarris

  Mother, Emotional, Wife

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• 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

  Andrew Sarris (1973). “The primal screen: essays on film and related subjects”, Simon & Schuster

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• 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

  Andrew Sarris (1996). “The American cinema: directors and directions, 1929-1968”, Da Capo Pr

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• I never argue with people about movies.

  Andrew Sarris

  People, Arguing

  "Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris" by Kent Jones, www.filmcomment.com. May/June 2005.

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• 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

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• I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

  Andrew Sarris

  Psychology, Tragedy, Abnormal

  Andrew Sarris (1970). “Confessions of a cultist: on the cinema, 1955-1969”, Simon & Schuster

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• There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.

  Andrew Sarris

  Mira

  "A Survivor of Film Criticism's Heroic Age" by Michael Powell, www.nytimes.com. July 9, 2009.

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• I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

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  Compassion, Long, Arrogant

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• Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

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  Civilization, Class, Two

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• The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

  Andrew Sarris

  Achievement, Firsts, Artistic

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• 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

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