Steve Erickson Quotes

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

My main goal is to really make people think, and laugh while they do so.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

I think that movies can help guide us through those experiences [the problems that are happening in our daily lives, the stresses between countries, the economy and global warming]. I think all art tries to grapple with, redefine, come to terms with, express what's happening now when it's working. You can be entertained, but you can also be stimulated to think about things.

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

I am a fairytale person and firmly believe that movies are made to entertain.

I think any story line that involves a relationship is going to be interesting.

For me, I'm obsessed with movies.

I love everything to do with movies.

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

Film has to reflect the real world.

I like to go to the movies and watch characters who make me question how I see the world.

I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for escapism or things like that, you want to read about characters you can identify with.

Sometimes I think I don't do anything but make, watch, and talk about films.

I think as storytelling has changed, you know, it's kind of turned into kind of hyper-reality movies.

I want people to become more comfortable with deeper looks at the things that they love. It doesn't mean that you have to stop loving them, it just means that you have a more complete understanding of them.

Films are my first love.

A lot of times, politics, global issues are very black and white. There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints, open for interpretations.