Film Critics Society

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

    “I’ll be right here.”
    —Melissa Mathison, U.S. screenwriter, and Steven Spielberg. ET, ET The Extra-Terrestrial, saying goodbye to Elliot as he touches Elliot’s forehead—ET’s final words in the film (1982)

    “Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?)