#movies

He said that for those who hadn't been to California, what it was most like was an enchanted island. The spitting image. Just like in the movies, but better. People live in houses, not apartment buildings, he said, and then he embarked on a comparison of houses (one-story, at most two-story), and four- or five-story buildings where the elevator is broken one day and out of order the next. The only way buildings compared favorably to houses was in terms of proximity. A neighborhood of buildings makes distances shorter, he said. Everything is closer. You can go walking to buy groceries or you can walk to your local tavern (here he winked at Reverend Foster), or the local church you belong to, or a museum. In other words, you don't need to drive. You don't even need a car. And here he recited a list of statistics on fatal car accidents in a county of Detroit and a county of Los Angeles. And that's even considering that cars are made in Detroit, he said, not Los Angeles. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#movies

There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense. ↗

— John Landis

#any #been #films #find #hare

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.' ↗

— John Landis

#away #been #chicago #choose #cities

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that. ↗

— Ang Lee

#digital #economically #expensive #hope #i

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#doing #done #films #i #might

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible. ↗

— John Leeson

#because #dog #i #like #made

Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#brooks #cheap #comedy #figured #fine

The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#always #audience #away #certain #certain things

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day. ↗

— Gary Locke

#american #brands #china #class #contrast

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. ↗

— Steve Martin

#answered #enough #haven #know #life