Cinematic Fascination Quotes

I watched 'Kill Bill,' like, three times.

I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.

I watched 'Psycho' a million times.

I must be honest and say that I was under the fascination of films. I was fascinated by all films, even the words of them. If I was to do a more-precise analysis of the situation, I have to admit that I was more entertained by the bad films than the good ones. Because when something is beautiful, it is there; it is finished; it is done. It doesn't have to be touched or be worked upon.

For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies.