Vincent Canby Quotes

United States, Writer
July 27, 1924 – October, 15, 2000.

Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000. He reviewed more than one thousand films during his tenure there.

Also known as Critic

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Vincent Canby
- World
- Curiosity
- Without
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

Vincent Canby
- Washington
- Teeth
- Edge

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

Vincent Canby
- Good
- Experience
- Feeling
His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

Vincent Canby
- Time
- Forever
- Never
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Vincent Canby
- Way
- Television
- April