Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes

'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and it was just a great experience.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

I can think, probably in my head, as a child I thought I always wanted to be soldier. So action music to me is something that I just absolutely love writing. So thankfully, I get to do Michael Bay movies.

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

There is nothing quite like 'The Night of the Hunter'. I have never seen a film to which it can be fairly compared.

Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.

'Once Upon a Time in the West' is one of my favorite films.

'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.

'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

My favorite movie ever is 'Bicycle Thieves.'

'Notorious' is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

The score I always have on heavy repeat is 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark!'

The British 'A Night to Remember' is so beautifully done and so well-constructed.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

'Double Indemnity' is one of my all time favorites. That's my favorite.

'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps to approach a character, to foresee the type of image - you see what I mean - it's like a part of the process.

'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.

My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

There's an excellent movie we have on TCM called 'It Happened on Fifth Avenue,' which was originally going to be directed by Frank Capra... but just before he was going to start working on it, he came across this story called 'The Greatest Gift.' And that turned into 'It's a Wonderful Life.'

The first time I saw Istvan Szabo's 'Mephisto,' I came out and I was in shock. I was shaking.