I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
I have to be honest: I've memorized 'Titanic.'
There's a really geeky YouTube channel which I love. It's a guy called Oliver Harper. He makes documentaries about films. He's a real movie buff - there's loads of trivia and detail.
I'd hardly seen any movies when I was 19 and left drama school.
I'm a film nerd.
You know what I hate, man? Guys that you know haven't seen the film: they just quote a bunch of statistical bullshit.
Criticism is okay from people who know the finer points of cinema.
I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.
Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.
I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.
If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.'
I'm not a film snob.
The thing that's amazing about working with Chris Landon is that he has such an encyclopedic knowledge of all films in all genres.
I've discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don't really know much about movies. They don't know the history. They don't know the technology. They don't know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they're lost.
I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him.
I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it.
I am definitely a Tim Burton fan. I had seen 'Edward Scissorhands' enough times to know it by heart. That's exciting: to work on something you feel like you really get.
I think, for an artiste, it's important to be aware of world cinema.
I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.
Every film you see at a festival teaches you something.
I can quote every single line in 'The Big Lebowski' from start to finish. That's what happens when you see a movie two dozen times.
I grew up understanding cinema from early on and was soon cinema-literate.
I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.
When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
