Alex North Quotes

There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.

I don't think I'm a flaming radical.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person. Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. I was a pretty difficult teenager.

I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

It's said that most Americans under the age of 30 reflexively dislike movies made before 1970, especially those that were shot in black and white. If this is so, I suspect it's because such films portray an America that no longer exists.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

I loved old movies. And I like imitating people.

I'm a big Turner Classic Movies fanatic - I was really addicted for a while.

I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable.

I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.

I watch television all the time, mostly PBS and old movies like 'The Quiet Man,' my favorite Wayne movie. It's marvelous. I just loved the man and still do.

I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there.

I love to watch old movies when I get time off.

It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.

Somehow I got a hold of an address for Vonnegut shortly after making the Marx Brothers film. Vonnegut wrote back, saying that he had seen the Marx brothers film and loved it. That became the foundation of our friendship: old movies and comedies.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.