Pauline Kael Quotes

For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.

Anurag was always too passionate about 'Raman Raghav 2.0' to care about anything else. There never was a 'Bombay Velvet' hangover.

There was a time in my life when I would literally go see every single film that came out in the theaters. No matter what. I just became obsessed with movies, and wound up getting drawn to the pulsating grain of film and the flickering of the light.

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

Film lovers are sick people.

I love movies. I'm a nut. There's nothing I would rather do than see three movies a day.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.

Since the time I was a kid, I used to love big films.

The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep.

I've been watching films my whole life and am completely obsessed with them.

I'm so passionate and love the craft of movies and watch them over and over.

I never was fanatical about films when I was younger.

When I see a great film I do wish I was part of it, that happens.

I fell in love with 'Ben Hur' when I was 8 years old, and I just knew I had to be involved in movies, even if I was the guy who melted the butter on the popcorn.

I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding one that really excites and surprises me.

Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.

I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.

Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!

I may have disparaged the idea that people are looking at films on smaller and smaller screens... it's a shame that people have to watch DVDs with the lights on in a television-type situation where people are wandering in and out of the room. Movies are different from television, and you cannot watch movies like television. It distorts it.