Ari Aster Quotes

No, I don't see many movies. I don't even see my own movies.

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

I'd always loved movies. I watch them all the time; my dad is a huge movie buff.

Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly.

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.

I never made a good movie.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.

The movies are something that I've been obsessed with, and I've subscribed to movie magazines all my life, since I was a child.

Cinema is not part of my entertainment.

You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part.

The quality of festival Q&As is often a matter of chance. Sometimes the lights come up on movies I loved, and not a single meaningful question is asked. Sometimes it's the opposite.

There's so many places, personally, that I would love as a film fan to explore.

As a child I liked to watch movies. As a young man I wanted to work in films.

The priority for me has always been good films.