Julie Harris Quotes

I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone.

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

You have to go back to the '30s and '40s to see a film that's any good.

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood.

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

People are making better and better small budge independent films these days.

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

It's hard to pinpoint why all of a sudden a group of Australian films will be doing well and why they perhaps are better made than some from the past.

Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.

I just love the black and white movies.

I always try to make popular films. Even in black-and-white and silent.

I'm a Turner Classic Movies guy. That's it. I'd much rather sit here and watch an oldie than anything new.

I'm totally devoted to '30s cinema.

I do think there's not enough film history being taught and appreciated. Maybe it's being taught, but I've heard from professors that young kids don't want to look at black-and-white movies. And that's 85 years of film history, with masterpiece after masterpiece.

The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.

Most of what Hollywood puts out is crap anyway.