Film Critics Society

Famous quotes containing the words film, critics and/or society:

    “This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable.”
    —British Board Of Film Censors. Quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984)

    “Some have at first for wits, then poets passed,
    Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “I came along at a time when there was a demand to give men greater visibility and opportunity. In white society they were saying, “Women can’t do it.” In black society, they were saying, “Women do too much.” It’s a diabolical situation.”
    —Yvonne Braithwaite Burke (b. 1932)