Judith Crist Quotes

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The critics who love are the severe ones... we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

Judith Crist
Resist the temptation to sell your grandmother down the river for a good line.

Judith Crist
[A critic] is an individual voicing his or her own opinion. He's not the voice of God. In my reviews, I say what I think of a film and why, and my readers know my tastes by now. Some hate my taste, and so I'm reliable for them, too, since they know they'll like what I hate.

Judith Crist
Just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms.

Judith Crist
One of the joys of criticism is in wanting to share discovered pleasure. You can't kill the trash, but at least you can give the good a push and pass it on.

Judith Crist
I'm tired of bare breasts, buttocks and bellies. I'm not a bluenose, but this penchant for flesh is moronic and unhealthy. It's a big shill.

Judith Crist
Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She fusses and fumes and she carps and complains. That's because Lucy cares. And it's the caring that counts.

Judith Crist
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

Judith Crist
The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull'.

Judith Crist
In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

Judith Crist
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.

Judith Crist