Top 102 Quotes by Richard Corliss

About Richard Corliss

These are some quotes by American author Richard Corliss Writer, who lived between March 6, 1944 and April 23, 2015.

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.

Richard Corliss

'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its un-Earthly vistas are spectral and spectacular.

'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its un-Earthly vistas are spectral and spectacular.

Richard Corliss

Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.

Richard Corliss

Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in 'It's My Party,' savored revenge in the sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry' and belted the proto-feminist anthem 'You Don't Own Me.'

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.

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

Hollywood has always seen Sondheim as a caviar brand unsuitable for a popcorn industry.

Richard Corliss

In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.

In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.

Richard Corliss

The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small.

The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small.

Richard Corliss

Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the only divine word comes from focus groups.

Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the only divine word comes from focus groups.

Richard Corliss

No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 days after a long rehearsal period, with the actors' and the camera's movements calibrated to the inch and the millisecond so the action flows smoothly, the picture has the jagged energy of a long guerrilla raid choreographed by Bob Fosse.

Richard Corliss

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