David Edelstein Quotes

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

- Roger Ebert

Film critic

· USA

• Freedom of speech
• Speech

A mistake in judgment isn’t fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

- Pauline Kael

Film critic

· USA

• Anxiety
• Judgement
• Mistake

What this generation was bred to at television’s knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

- Pauline Kael

Film critic

· USA

• Generations
• Political

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go. Explain

- Pauline Kael

Film critic

· USA

• Reality

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

- Roger Ebert

Film critic

· USA

• Born

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.

- Roger Ebert

Film critic

· USA

• Periods

Everything looks beautiful in Life of Pi.

- Lisa Schwarzbaum

Film critic

• Beautiful

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

- Roger Ebert

Film critic

· USA

• Film

Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.

- Peter Travers

Film critic

• Fearless
• Light

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

- Richard Corliss

Film critic

· USA

• Artist
• Makeup
• Stars