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Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.
— Richard Corliss
Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.
— Richard Corliss
The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
— Corliss Lamont
The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
— Corliss Lamont
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
— Corliss Lamont
You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses.
— Richard Corliss
Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.
— Richard Corliss
Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.
— Richard Corliss
If you want to do amazing things with your life ...
— Jeb Corliss
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
— Corliss Lamont
Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured villainy.
— Richard Corliss
You know it's Oscar season when you see a slew of new movies based on true stories whose resolutions you can find in three seconds on Wikipedia.
— Richard Corliss
Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.
— Richard Corliss
It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.
— Richard Corliss
The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
— Corliss Lamont
In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.
— Richard Corliss
Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product.
— Richard Corliss
The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.
— Corliss Lamont
Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism.
— Richard Corliss
Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wonderful life?
— Richard Corliss
Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber.
— Richard Corliss
Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.
— Richard Corliss
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
— Corliss Lamont
Hollywood has always seen Sondheim as a caviar brand unsuitable for a popcorn industry.
— Richard Corliss
It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.
— Richard Corliss
The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past. - Corliss Lamont, humanist philosopher
— Dale McGowan
The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.
— Corliss Lamont
It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.
— Richard Corliss
'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.
— Richard Corliss
Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as 'A Hard Day's Night'?
— Richard Corliss