Melanie Lynskey Quotes

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if it's worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.

You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

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

One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and when I was in school, I loved to read old film criticism.

I've probably spent a good year and half of my life watching movies. I love it. It was something I knew I'd be happy doing.

Criticism is okay from people who know the finer points of cinema.

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

I'm a freak for great movies. I love movies.

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.

I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.

I love talking about movies that mean something to me.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.

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

Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.

I love movies and always, always have.

I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the 'New Yorker''s Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

How can you judge one film against another?