Steve Erickson Quotes

'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

The only thing that surprised me about 'Lincoln' is that most of the critics who reviewed the film seem not to have grasped what should have been apparent right from the start, which is that 'Lincoln' is at bottom a play with pictures, not a screenplay.

I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.

I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.

'Rob Roy' was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than 'Braveheart.'

An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

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

Put simply, 'Interstellar' has a strong undercurrent of cheesiness.

I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.

I think 'A Serious Man' is genius.

I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film.

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

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 thought 'The King's Speech' was great.

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.

I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'

I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

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.

Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.

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

As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'

I really liked the 'Pitch Black' DVD, and I liked the commentary.

I can't imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot 'Lawrence of Arabia.'