David Thewlis Quotes

There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.

But my family's really close and I was interested in what Mommy and Daddy did for a living. So when Mommy and Daddy had a script that wasn't totally age inappropriate, they would let me read it. And we would talk about it.

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.

I grew up in New York, so I had a lot of access to all kinds of movies, and I would handwrite reviews of them on loose-leaf paper.

My son Gautham usually doesn't watch my films. But he watched 'Srimanthudu' in the theatre.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.

For a long time, I thought of singing as my mom's thing. I loved it, but I thought of dance as my thing.

I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema student. I indulge in the art of criticism in general.

I did not have any inclination towards cinema. The atmosphere at home was not filmy, and we would never discuss anything related to films.

You can't expect critics to appreciate all kinds of cinema.

A Separation is another film that I think is extraordinary, and one of those things that feels like it's from another planet, much like Terrence Malick's movies did: at a certain point, you feel like he's an alien from another planet telling us and looking at us and showing us how we are. I also really, really love Jerry McGuire.

When I walk out of a movie that's actually good, I write emails to anybody I know who was involved with it.

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

In so many reviews that I'm reading of 'The Florida Project,' everyone is assuming it's my second film.

I still remember how me and my husband spent 30 minutes trying to convince our then 10 and 12 year old son and daughter that they really would love this black and white movie called, 'It's a Wonderful Life'.

I wasn't a film buff.

I relate to all kinds of film.

I did my first film when I was 14. I did not take films seriously. It was just a time pass for me then.

Some critic complained about how many small films are released in New York... it annoyed me. Those small films that are lucky to get two weeks are often my favorite films of the year.