Jenn Proske Quotes

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 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.

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

In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.

For me, I'm obsessed with movies.

I'm so passionate and love the craft of movies and watch them over and over.

During the course of any normal day, I usually pay more attention to assembling a grocery list than I do to reading movie reviews, although there are a more than a few film critics who bring huge insight to their work.

Sometimes I criticize movies. It's not fun to watch a movie with me, because I'll go, "That was a really bad shot." My mom's like, "Shut up, Chloe, watch the film!"

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.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

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.

There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

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.

Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young. So, I didn't think about it at the time when 'I Am Legend' came out. I just watched it.