David Thomson Quotations

Dynamic duos are the stuff of corporate legend: Sears and Roebuck, Roy and Walt Disney, Hewlett and Packard, and the like.

A wireless phone is only as good as the network it's on. You can have the best price plan and the coolest-looking phone, and if it doesn't work for you, what good is that?

Jon Stewart is clearly an unusual figure. He might have said, 'If you want me, you've got to have me on my own terms'.

All his Celtic rogues, epic seers, and Anthony Quinn leanings were swept up in one grand old ham, ... Biographical Dictionary of Film.

Cammell's, I suppose, was a failed career, ... but it was a good deal more interesting than the careers of many people who were much more successful. He was quite a remarkable man.

We have more (potential) sites than the ability to fill them.

For the best part of 100 years, movies made stories about a certain view of love, and it shaped us all, whether we like it or not. Our lessons were about how to look at people of the other sex. How you kiss, what you say. We learned a lot about love from the movies. We've matured a bit, and we can see there's a lot more to love.

It's very tough. The Oscar show is such a machine and such a monster. The host gets his chance up front, and then says less and less as the evening goes on.

He made the South Seas a great part of his life. Clearly this story comes out of the books he read and the things he learned about the seas during his time out there. He was also crazy about Asian women.

It's not profound literature, but it's an adventure story and quite a good adventure story, very unexpected coming from Brando. It tells us a lot about him.