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)

    “There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.”
    —Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)