Steve Erickson Quotes

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

["Where the Buffalo Roam" is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing.

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.

Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.

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.

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

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.

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

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.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Most movies aren't any good.

I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.

I don't really have any opinion about my performance in 'Big Momma's House.'

Rotten Tomatoes is the best thing that happened to the movie business because it means you have to make good movies.

If Mr. Chan ever makes another movie like 'The Tuxedo,' it's American audiences that will see him in court. With 'Shanghai Knights,' he has come through with one of his best. This time, it's personable.

I don't judge director on the basis of their last film.

Most movies were always terrible.

I can't watch a movie where the actors are great and the photography sucks.

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

I have seen many festival films and I will be blunt, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' was ready for festivals.

'Lootera,' though not commercially successful, was a beautiful film.