Stupid Quotes #1: Cinematic hacks spout inanity

    "Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When
    they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very
    naughty."
                                                             --Kenneth Branagh

    "I love almost all of Stanley Kubrick, there's almost no Stanley Kubrick I
    don't love. I love Lolita, I love Dr. Strangelove. I love A Clockwork
    Orange, obviously. I even like a lot of Barry Lyndon (laughs). And early
    stuff, like The Killing and Paths of Glory. [...] It's ridiculous. Look,
    he made the best comedy ever, he may have made one of the best science
    fiction movies ever, he made the best horror movie ever. I couldn't watch
    the end of The Shining. I went through half The Shining for years before I
    could finish, because I'm a writer and as soon as he starts writing "All
    work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," I had to turn it off."
                                                             --Gary Ross, 2012

    "Well, it's not an ending [...] It's a Come Back Next Week, or in three
    years. And that upsets me. I go to movies expecting to have a whole
    experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie.
    That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within
    itself, it can't just build off the first one or play variations."
                                --Joss Whedon on The Empire Strikes Back, 2013

    "Loving a film is like falling in love with a woman or with a man like you
    never expect it. It's not the one you think you will be in love with, you
    know. You think always that he will be with a beard, and black, and big
    and finally he's Chinese and you know it's the same thing."
                                                                  --Luc Besson

    "I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but
    age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run
    into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the
    consequences."
                                                            --Darren Aronofsky

    "Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders."
                                                             --Roland Emmerich

    "Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to
    humankind."
                                                                   --Spike Lee

    "Stop...stop, that's the next generation of fans. [...] How dare you pass
    judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be
    encouraged because in six years they'll be 18-year-old girls who like
    vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don't
    Poo-poo it. There's a plan, and it's working."
                                                                 --Kevin Smith

    "More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more
    on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all."
                                                              --Lars von Trier

    "It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard
    when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun
    and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't."
                                                                 --Guy Ritchie

    "I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school."
                                                          --M. Night Shyamalan