Film Endurance Quotes

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

There's something about all the films that I have made in that they don't seem old or dated, and some people mention that.

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

With all the hype that computer graphics has been getting, everybody thinks there's nothing better than CGI, but I do get a lot of fan mail saying they prefer our films to anything with CGI in it. I'm grateful for that, and we made them on tight budgets, so they were considered B-pictures because of that. And, now here we are, and they've outlasted many so-called A-pictures.

Why would you want to remake a movie that has endured for more than 25 years?