Movie Collecting Quotes

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at.

I'm a huge fan of movies, and I watch DVDs all day, and I like to be able to watch DVDs that are different from what was in theaters. Whether that's uncut or a director's cut. I think it's an awesome way to rediscover the movie.

The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.

I think if you're watching 'Dumb and Dumber,' I don't know whether you need to buy the Blu-ray of a comedy or something like that. But if you're watching 'Event Horizon,' 'Death Race,' 'Alien vs. Predator' I mean, I think these movies are definitely enhanced by the Blu-ray experience.

We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?

Film is forever.

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

In our home we have many movie props from old film productions.

I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy.

I'm a big Turner Classic Movies fanatic - I was really addicted for a while.

Whenever I am abroad, I spend hours and hours at video stores. I look for classics from filmmakers from all over the world.

I have a kind of unhealthy obsession with movies.