Peyton Reed Quotes

The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

I think 'E.T.' is a quite extraordinary piece of cinema.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

For my money, the movies of the '70s were just amazing.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

I love film, any kind of genre.

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

I was pretty young when I saw the original 'Planet of the Apes', and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

Parineeta is a classic love story.

The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

One of my favorite movies is 'Broadway Danny Rose.'

'Once Upon a Time in the West' is a great movie.

I think I always have Woody Allen in mind whenever I'm creating anything. He's such a genius, and I think 'Annie Hall' is one of the greatest movies ever written.

Stephen Chow is one of my favorite filmmakers, and so groundbreaking.

'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I'm very fond of, is a genius.

While we were filming 'Munna Bhai MBBS,' we didn't think we were doing some kind of mainstream cinema. I only knew that I was doing a different kind of cinema.