It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.
My motto: ‘No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.’
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
James Cameron’s films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
It’s the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.
It’s rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, ‘To hell with the consequences.’
It’s easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.
It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.
All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
The right really dominates radio, and it’s amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn’t. They want to shut other people up. They really don’t understand the First Amendment.
I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.
Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.
Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to inflame political passions and energize the John McCain campaign with star quality.
I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.
Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn’t have the answers.
What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.
Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.
In thinking about ‘depressing movies,’ many people don’t realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.