Irvine Welsh Quotes

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

Not every Hammer film was perfect.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins.

Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'

Who would want to do a bad film? It's just that not all films work in my favour, and I'm fine with it.

I don't judge director on the basis of their last film.

Most movies were always terrible.

Only the right films work.

I think there are just bad films and good films. Period.

When people told me that 'Polladhavan' was a remake of 'Bicycle Thieves,' I wanted to laugh because comparing 'Polladhavan' to 'Bicycle Thieves' is a disgrace to the latter.

No matter what kind of film one makes, it boils down to whether it's good or not.

It's not about Hollywood, it's always about a good script for me.

If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to say, "Oh it's directed by this person - that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful."