Elvis Mitchell Quotes
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In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it, set it on fire, step on it, hammer nails into it.
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Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined 'Ridgemont High' and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes.
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Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-boy braggadocio of hip-hop is impossible to imagine without him. So it makes sense that one of his spiritual children, the sunny-dispositioned rapper turned actor Will Smith, would play him.
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It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but 'Battlefield Earth' may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.
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One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation' and now 'Sunshine' - sound like titles from REM's 'Reckoning.'
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LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up.
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Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.
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I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like being the fastest midget in the circus.
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I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.
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There's a great deal of echoing going on in 'Old School.' Mr. Piven, who played the upstart outsider in the 1994 campus comedy 'PCU,' has crossed over into playing the stiff martinet.
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If somebody wants to attack my work, that's one thing - that, I'll respond to.
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The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those squirm-inducing moments in comedy that produce enough discomfort that, at points, what we're watching is half a heartbeat away from a horror film.
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My style icon has always been Sidney Poitier.
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Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his fiction.
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Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director.
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The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - I'm going to go into hip-hop.'
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You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government, politics - it's everywhere. It's not exclusively film. It's infuriating to see it in film. But my being in film changes things.
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Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.
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There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.
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It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film.