Movie Flaws Quotes

Not every Hammer film was perfect.

The 'X-Men' franchise has not been a perfect one.

There was one mistake in 'Devdas,' but I won't ever tell anyone what it was.

One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners.

I learn new things about what 'The Room' does wrong or oddly every time I see it with a crowd.

I think 'Inception' was a sick idea, but they didn't do it correctly.

The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.

I look at 'Straw Dogs' as a very imperfect movie. It's a little bit slow, and its themes are a little bit murky.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

[Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same league as Filth.

'Under the Skin' is handsome, in a dour way, but inert - a cunning experiment that died in the shooting or on the editing table. You'll want to get the DVD, though, and not just for its study of Scarlett. Odds are that the Making-Of documentary will be far stranger and more fascinating than the movie that was made.

'Gandhi' was a well-made film but surely not my best. It had flaws, which I understand two-and-a-half decades after I directed it. I will never call it a propaganda film for the Indian Congress, but it could have been made better had I concentrated on certain minute details.

Great movies are rarely perfect movies.