Mike Royko Quotes

John Wayne never ever disappointed his fans, because he was a cowboy.

You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.

I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after.

Sometimes you just wanna go out, see your action movie, be done with it, come home. You know, and, like, you see 'The Matrix' or whatever, you see whatever film it is, and you're like, 'Oh cool,' whatever.

I don't watch any of my own movies, but I love going to the movies. To me, there is nothing more relaxing or gratifying than sitting down in the dark and having some popcorn and watching a great movie.

I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to have an experience.

I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.

I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.

I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction's attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest.

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

In a movie, that's the only time when you're allowed these kind of fantasies to be lived. Being able to look so cool and be able to fight five bad guys and take them down. When can you do that?

That's why 'Star Wars' is appealing. You watch someone fight the perilous monster.

A James Bond film can be artistically fulfilling. Absolutely it can. It can be complex, and it can be interesting. I consider Bond movies to be an extension of popular theatre, a kind of modern mythology. You see the same sort of action in 'Punch and Judy' or in the folk theatre of various cultures, like 'Grand Guignol.'

Bond is fantasy.

I'm a fan of the sensibility of comics, and I love the escapism of them and the defining of good and evil. They're just so creative, too.

I think people will always want to go see a movie, whether it's a comedy and you want to see it and laugh with people, or whatever.

Bad guys are always fun. It's one of the reasons why I love McKay so much.

After people work hard and cope with the pressures of life throughout the week, going out to a show or tuning in to watch some characters in cowboy clothes, singing and playing songs about real life is something I relate to.

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.