Movie Critic Quotes

The best thing I can say about 'Teen Wolf Too' is that it's the only time anyone ever referred to me as Preston Sturges. Leonard Maltin wrote that 'Teen Wolf Too' made 'Teen Wolf' look like Preston Sturges. I've always prided myself on that.

'Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

The first time I went to Cannes, Gus Van Sant was there in competition with 'Last Days.'

I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the full cooperation and enthusiasm of Roger and his wife, Chaz.

I have slowly paced myself in movies, and I am pretty happy with what I have done there.

I am a movie buff - I even claim I am a Hindi film encyclopedia post 1988(only because that was the year I was born in... haha).

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

I own one movie by fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman, because I have to. You can't be a movie critic with a collection of six or seven hundred DVDs that includes everything from 'Tokyo Story' to 'Poison Ivy: The New Seduction' and not have a Bergman movie.

I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

I'm always in the theater seeing everything, good or bad.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

Every night, I watch films.

I'm not a film snob.

I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the 'New Yorker''s Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me.

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater.

Good movies are my weakness. I have seen several international movies ranging from English to Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese.

I know my movies. I love my movies.

I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if it's worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.

I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.