Steve Erickson Quotes

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

I don't believe in expertise. I don't believe that a film critic feels a film more deeply than any person who walks into a theater. I don't believe that.

I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

I love watching film. I love watching stories. I watch the people in them... Even, sometimes, films that nobody else can watch - 'How could you look at that? It's lousy' - I can look at it and be totally into it.

I don't make films, and because I don't make films, I'm not an expert in the craft of bringing a film into the world, how you put its various pieces together. But where I feel like I'm an expert is my own feelings in response to a film.

While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.

I think finales are always so hit or miss because they're so personal. When you do a finale, it's always up to the person watching it.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

From an early age, I learned to invest myself emotionally in what unfolded before me on screen.

I'm not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt.

I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.

If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it - but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me.

The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

I love films, I love the way they make me feel.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally.

When I walk out of a movie that's actually good, I write emails to anybody I know who was involved with it.