Film Archive Quotes

I do wish somewhere there was a film of our stage production of 'My Fair Lady.'

My film collection is all oldies.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

Once you get a trick on film, it's there forever.

My uncle has a VHS collection of over 20,000 films.

The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.

At one point, I got to work as an assistant for Martin Scorsese: He wanted to know about all the films coming out, so I would make clippings and put it all in a big scrapbook for him. I was also in charge of his video library - it was like a little video store, and his friends and colleagues would come and borrow films.

Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD.

I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.

My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.

The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.