Dana Carvey Quotes

You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.

I love 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and I love 'Bugsy Malone.' I haven't seen 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' in a long time, but I remember loving it as a kid.

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.

I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.

I personally think 'Chimes of Midnight' is a much better film than 'Citizen Kane.'

I kind of don't like doing film commentaries because I think they're kind of weird.

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

I do love Turner Classic Movies, because I feel like I'm not wasting as much time. I'm almost educating myself if I watch that.

Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.

My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.

I used to hold Stanley Kubrick film festivals at my house in high school. These are not cool things.

I look at films every day. I study. I coach.

Conan the Barbarian,' 'Star Wars,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Wizard of Oz' were my earliest VHS obsessions.

I think the '80s works for a TV show because it's the last time the world was simple. It was before the Internet really changed everything and made the world really small.

I grew up watching a lot of film.

I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.

I was a little tomboy, growing up, but we had to go to the library every weekend if we wanted some form of entertainment. And I would gravitate towards the Shirley Temple, Judy Garland section of the library, and I would just pop that in and watch on replay because kids can watch movies over and over again.

I watched a lot of old movies, and a lot of Carol Burnett and Andy Kaufman.

I like film. I'm old fashioned.

I relate to all kinds of film.

I don't think 'Citizen Kane' stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn't know that?

I don't dislike 'It' or 'Stranger Things,' but I'm just not as super into it, because, like, I've seen 'E.T.' a lot. And I've watched 'The Goonies.'

I look back at my childhood, and the films that I remember the most are things like 'Mary Poppins,' 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema student. I indulge in the art of criticism in general.