Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

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

“A victorious tomcat is like a tiger; a plucked phoenix is not worth a chicken.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)

“It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s “mature” critics often are.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)

“There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)