Analytical Discussion Quotes

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.

Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them. It's usually a guy, I'm afraid. But then you're setting up a new movie you have amnesia about these meetings, when you've discussed it more analytically.

There's always merit to having a debate.

Nothing's ever allowed to just be entertaining. We have to talk about it.

I enjoy intellectual companionship.

I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about.