Erik Estrada Quotes

I absolutely loved 'The New World.'

'Scarface' was a tremendous undertaking, and I'm one of those who really feel that no one could have done it like Brian De Palma.

I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.

I think 'A Serious Man' is genius.

I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.

I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

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.

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

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

My criteria is always, 'Would I go see this movie? Is this character something I've never done? Who is the director? Do they inspire me?'

In 'Sanju,' there are too many colours. Some other filmmaker could have taken a dark side to that story.

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

If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

I saw 'The Help' on DVD. I was blown away by Viola Davis: she really straddled that fine line in the plot between what was tragic and what was heart-warming.

Claire Denis's 'Beau Travail' is one of Denis's greatest achievements. One of the most mysterious and beautiful endings in movies.

'Son Chiriya' is a special film with lovely co-stars and a sorted out director.

'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made.

Most movies were always terrible.

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

Movie, being an art form, should have artistic value and should do justice to the artistes.

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

I am inspired by the kind of films Raj Kumar Gupta and Imtiaz Ali make.

An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.