Zack Greinke Quotes

I loved 'The Artist.' I thought it was fantastic.

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

I loved 'About Schmidt'. I like Alexander Payne's work a lot.

'Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.

I am very sensitive about characters being annoying in movies.

I have more fun talking about other movies than talking about my own.

I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

The reviewers tear me apart. I bleed. I'm a favorite target. They go along for six months looking at movies, praying for rain, and then a new Sandra Dee movie comes out, and their eyes open, and they lick their lips. Before they've ever seen it.

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

The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.

What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.

I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.

I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.

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.

Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie.

I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

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.

You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

So many people ask me, 'Do you like 'Departed?' I say, '50/50.'

I don't think I've made my favorite film yet. But I loved 'Bamboozled.' 'Bamboozled' to me is off the chain. It's definitely in the ranking. I loved 'Bamboozled.'

You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

He likes 'Confetti,' and he doesn't like 'Star Wars.' I think that just relieves us from the burden of ever having to take Mark Kermode seriously again.