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Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of home, parent, friends and fondest pets, these films imposed shock therapy on four-year-olds.
Richard Corliss
Home
Forcing
Cute
Films
Parent
Horror
Horror Movies
Features
Were
Imposed
Loss
Tragedies
Friends
Shock
Greek
Children
Movies
Confront
Disney
Therapy
Chorus
Pets
Early
It's nice that established and emerging stars agree to appear in ambitious low-budget films. Such pro-bono work gives the movie a higher profile and the actors a potentially more distinguished resume.
Richard Corliss
Work
Resume
Nice
Stars
Films
Distinguished
Emerging
More
Gives
Potentially
Higher
Ambitious
Established
Movie
Low-Budget
Agree
Appear
Actor
Profile
'Blade Runner' was one of several dystopian science-fiction films to tank in the early and middle '80s. 'Tron,' 'The Dark Crystal,' 'The Keep,' 'Labyrinth': none found a large audience.
Richard Corliss
Dark
Films
Several
Runner
Blade
Blade Runner
Crystal
None
Audience
Tank
Labyrinth
Middle
Dystopian
Large
Large Audience
Keep
Found
Early
If the Beatles made England swing for the young, then Bond was a travel-poster boy for the earmuff brigade. The Bond films even put a few theme songs, such as Paul McCartney's 'Live and Let Die,' on the pop charts.
Richard Corliss
Beatles
Made
Few
Young
Live
Films
Charts
Songs
Put
Boy
Die
McCartney
Paul
Theme
Then
Pop
England
Even
Swing
Brigade
Bond
It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.
Richard Donner
Life
Hurt
My Life
Films
Locked
Horns
Only
Couple
Been
Times
Did
Just
Really
Moment
Actor
Filmmaking
When I was a kid, I loved horror films. I used to stay up on Saturday night to watch.
Richard Jenkins
Films
Kid
Stay
Horror
Horror Films
Up
Loved
Used
Saturday
Saturday Night
Watch
Night
I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.
Richard King
Films
Horror
Horror Films
Fact
Attempting
Studios
Major
Like
Been
Recently
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.
Richard LaGravenese
You
Films
Television
Allowed
Studio
Studio Films
Least
Ambiguity
Hollywood
Film
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
Richard Linklater
Art
Entertainment
Pure
Become
Films
See
Disappointing
Art Form
Form
The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
Richard Linklater
You
Gone
Films
Those
Worst
Worst Thing
Able
Places
Interesting
Used
Show
Thing
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
Richard Linklater
Films
Like
Make
Going
Just
Paint
Painters
Filmmakers
A lot of Luis Bunuel's later, European films are all great.
Richard Linklater
Great
Films
Later
Lot
European
I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience.
Richard Linklater
Patience
Cinema
Vision
Long
Films
Out
Able
Long Road
Had
Road
Long-Term
Term
Knowing
Make
Always
Getting
Going
Whenever
Even
Starting
I have two sisters, so we watched all of the Disney films. I think I still know the lyrics to them all.
Richard Madden
Think
Films
Lyrics
Know
Still
Sisters
Them
Disney
Watched
Two
I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.
Richard Schiff
Great
Generation
Somebody
Films
Our
Saw
Our Generation
Out
Table
David
Know
Goose
Read
Doing
Years
Years Ago
Version
Jack
Next
Next Thing
Al
Film
Al Pacino
Play
Thing
It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.
Rick Baker
Funny
Me
People
Films
Jobs
Pursue
Come
Been
Lot
Very
Done
Agent
Really
Successful
I'm influenced by those '40s, '50s, and '60s films: things like 'The Apartment' - I was a big fan of Billy Wilder.
Ricky Gervais
Big
Films
Wilder
Those
Like
Big Fan
Influenced
Fan
Apartment
Billy
Billy Wilder
Things
Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.
Ridley Scott
Films
Dead
Sci-Fi
Westerns
'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.
Ridley Scott
Good
Alien
Films
Landmark
Really
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.
Ridley Scott
Time
Me
Better
Films
Would
Would-Be
Rather
Write
Writer
Take
Make
Than
Screenplay
Movies
Two
If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed.
Ridley Scott
Art
People
Somebody
Down
Films
Unlikely
About
Most
Likely
Process
Succeed
Succeeding
Then
Who
Starting
People are fed up of formula films, and we are getting new space to experiment.
Rishi Kapoor
People
Space
Experiment
Films
Fed
Fed Up
New
Up
Getting
Formula
If you want to show cinema, make entertainment films. Sometimes they are very good, sometimes very bad, but the intention is always to make entertaining films.
Rishi Kapoor
Good
You
Entertainment
Cinema
Sometimes
Films
Bad
Entertaining
Make
Always
Very
Intention
Want
Show
Some films will work, some won't.
Rishi Kapoor
Work
Will
Films
Some
I came into films when there was action. When I retired, it was romantic period.
Rishi Kapoor
Action
Films
Retired
Period
Came
Romantic
Let's face it. How often do you see an Asian face in films and television? They are practically invisible. Now and then, you will get one, and, interestingly, he gets the role of a scientist. Isn't that interesting?
Rita Moreno
You
Will
Face
Films
Television
See
He
Invisible
Practically
How
Scientist
Role
Get
Gets
Often
Interesting
Asian
Then
Interestingly
Now
Now And Then
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