John Requa Quotes

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

My favorite one... it's hard to pick a favorite. But the one I really love a lot is 'A Serious Man.' I just love, love 'A Serious Man.'

Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four hours long, but it's so well done.

David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster.

'In Bruges' featured two hit men on a chatty stroll in Belgium, and certain people's passion for it is fit for Valentine's Day. But it was Tupperware Tarantino to me.

I'm a fan of, like, the Coen Brothers, with the darker humor in it.

Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.

Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

I personally think 'Chimes of Midnight' is a much better film than 'Citizen Kane.'

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.

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.

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

'Unforgiven,' I think, is the best Western ever.

I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.

I have a big affinity for the Coen Brothers.

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from.

What I love about the Coen brothers - what everyone loves - is that they sort of toe the line of a truly dark comedy.

One of the things I love about Joel and Ethan Coen's movies is that there is this element of the ethereal and the mythic that they play with.