Quotes

I find critics who have been out in the world a bit and have some broader interests, usually more interesting than reviewers who spent most of their life sitting in the dark completely absorbed by movies and nothing else.

[on Natural Born Killers (1994)] Isn't so much a cry against the dying of the light as the kind of movie that dims the light in the first place.

[on Heaven's Gate (1980)] The full version, I can assure you, is quite an experience - an extraordinary attempt to make a major American movie at a time when only the minors hold sway.

[on Dracula (1992)] Remains in essentials a fairly comprehensive and often vulgar mess. The whole somehow seems to sum up perfectly what most people want from cinema nowadays: style hinting at content but gradually drowning it out with pyrotechnics.

[on Ken Loach] He is one of those very few directors who simply holds fast to his principles, right or wrong. And that's that as far as he's concerned. You won't change him so you might as well celebrate what he is.

[on Wild Strawberries (1957)] What makes the film great is its nearness to each of us. And its almost Christian insistence on the possibility of reconciliation and redemption.