My mom and dad used to tell me, 'You've got to see this film,' and they were influential to a high degree of the films I saw as a kid.
It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
I enjoy a good movie, no matter what the genre.
A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society.
I've followed Gary Oldman his whole career... I've watched the movies he's directed, like 'Nil by Mouth' - I've seen that five times!
Actually, you have to spend a lot of time on TV. So I have taken a break from TV and shifted my focus in the movies.
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid I get that I'm going to stop seeing things.
That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.
People confuse 'pretty' with good cinematography.
I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.
We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.
A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.
I was so obsessed with film and actors that I wasn't a very good student. I was always in trouble, but my father would always take us to the movies.
Terry Gilliam has directed some of the best examples of what I like to see in a film - one of them being 'Baron Munchausen.'
I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.
There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.
What was so exciting for me about Wakanda and seeing 'Black Panther' was how incredible the women were in it.
I've always loved the Bond films.
Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.
I'll never forget watching 'I'm Not There' with Cate Blanchett, because it was the first time she saw the finished film and saw her performance in it. I was sitting next to her experiencing it vicariously through her fresh eyes and hoping she liked it.
