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Top 30 Wesley Morris Quotes (2025 Update)

Wesley Morris Quote: “The bravery of Stanley Kramer’s ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ amounted to two Hollywood legends – Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy – telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.”

1. “The bravery of Stanley Kramer’s ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ amounted to two Hollywood legends – Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy – telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn’t to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.”

2. “In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn’t to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker is one thing, but its interpretation by an audience is something else. I don’t stop at what the filmmaker wanted to do.”

3. “A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker is one thing, but its interpretation by an audience is something else. I don’t stop at what the filmmaker wanted to do.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “I don’t need the audience, but sometimes it’s nice to have a gauge – not so I know how I feel, but so I get what is or isn’t working for moviegoers.”

4. “I don’t need the audience, but sometimes it’s nice to have a gauge – not so I know how I feel, but so I get what is or isn’t working for moviegoers.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.”

5. “Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it’s very clear that’s the era we’re in. It’s like Christianity in the Middle Ages.”

6. “I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it’s very clear that’s the era we’re in. It’s like Christianity in the Middle Ages.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “Computers are scary. Theyre nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.”

7. “Computers are scary. Theyre nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It’s a face that is searching and open and kind. It’s a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.”

8. “Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It’s a face that is searching and open and kind. It’s a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “I like Nora Ephron. She wasn’t a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.”

9. “I like Nora Ephron. She wasn’t a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.”

10. “Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer’s voice and the writer’s point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.”

11. “I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer’s voice and the writer’s point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.”

12. “Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema.”

13. “Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “Sometimes a movie knows you’re watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it’s over, to make you want it all over again.”

14. “Sometimes a movie knows you’re watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it’s over, to make you want it all over again.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “Straight white males: that’s the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.”

15. “Straight white males: that’s the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.”

16. “Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “I’m a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.”

17. “I’m a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, ‘What is going on?’ You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.”

18. “There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, ‘What is going on?’ You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don’t feel an obligation to do that because I’m black.”

19. “All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don’t feel an obligation to do that because I’m black.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It’s a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.”

20. “In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It’s a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.”

21. “I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don’t have to go out of my way to do that.”

22. “I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don’t have to go out of my way to do that.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “If I like a movie, I’m definitely advocating for it, but it’s not “you should see this” or “you shouldn’t see this.” I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing.”

23. “If I like a movie, I’m definitely advocating for it, but it’s not “you should see this” or “you shouldn’t see this.” I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “Sidney Lumet’s chief preoccupation wasn’t art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.”

24. “Sidney Lumet’s chief preoccupation wasn’t art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it’s me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.”

25. “I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it’s me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don’t feel good about.”

26. “The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don’t feel good about.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “Something about white America’s desire for Blackness warps and perverts its source, lampoons and cheapens it even in adoration. Loving Black culture has never demanded a corresponding love of Black people. And loving Black culture has tended to result in loving the life out of it.”

27. “Something about white America’s desire for Blackness warps and perverts its source, lampoons and cheapens it even in adoration. Loving Black culture has never demanded a corresponding love of Black people. And loving Black culture has tended to result in loving the life out of it.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “Minstrelsy’s grotesquerie deluded white audiences into feeling better about themselves. It induced a bearable cognitive dissonance that outlasted enslavement. The caricatures of Black people as extravagantly lazy, licentious, vulgar, disheveled, and abject always drew a comforting contrast with a white person’s sense of honor and civility, with a white person’s simply being white.”

28. “Minstrelsy’s grotesquerie deluded white audiences into feeling better about themselves. It induced a bearable cognitive dissonance that outlasted enslavement. The caricatures of Black people as extravagantly lazy, licentious, vulgar, disheveled, and abject always drew a comforting contrast with a white person’s sense of honor and civility, with a white person’s simply being white.”

— Wesley Morris

Wesley Morris Quote: “What minstrelsy offered the country during this period was an entertainment of talent, ribaldry, and polemics. But it also lent racism a stage upon which existential fear could become jubilation, and contempt could become fantasy.”

29. “What minstrelsy offered the country during this period was an entertainment of talent, ribaldry, and polemics. But it also lent racism a stage upon which existential fear could become jubilation, and contempt could become fantasy.”

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Wesley Morris Quote: “As they were being worked, sometimes to death, white people, desperate with anticipation, were paying to see a terrible distortion of the enslaved depicted at play.”

30. “As they were being worked, sometimes to death, white people, desperate with anticipation, were paying to see a terrible distortion of the enslaved depicted at play.”

— Wesley Morris

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