"Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between."

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Source : Judith Crist (1968). “The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde”

Judith Crist

#Real Quotes #Mean Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”
“I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.”
“Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.”
“Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.”
“A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.”
“I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.”
“When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your inner body as you listen.That takes attention away from thinking and creates a still space that enables you to truly listen without the mind interfering. You are giving the other person space-space to be. It is the most precious gift you can give.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 29, 2014
“Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.”

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