Patrick Kavanagh Quotes

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

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

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

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.

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.

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?

When I was working on 'Vampires Suck,' I must have watched 'Twilight' and 'New Moon' literally almost every day.

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

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

In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

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

I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good.

I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the full cooperation and enthusiasm of Roger and his wife, Chaz.

Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.