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"So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater."
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"A good preview makes you can't wait to see the whole movie."

"Of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse."

"Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds of a certain idea or feed the mind with inspiration and courage. In short, healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction. This leads to not only an entertained viewer, but also an inspired soul. And that should be the purpose of film-making, and indeed the entire entertainment industry, rather than feeding the general population with garbage."

"I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat."

"Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!"

"Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction."

"I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads."

"So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?""All the time," she said dryly, "on the BBC. And don't think I wouldn't sell my soul for a TARDIS."

"Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them."
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"I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink."

"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

"Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen."

"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people."

"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."
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