We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

- Vincent Canby

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

- Vincent Canby

Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

- Vincent Canby

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

- Vincent Canby

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experi…

- Vincent Canby

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

- Vincent Canby

Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a lot of it is hot air.…

- Vincent Canby

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

- Vincent Canby

Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It …

- Vincent Canby