Steven Spielberg dixit

"People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning."

William Friedkin on modern cinema

"'Films used to be rooted in gravity. They were about real people doing real things' the acclaimed filmmaker says. 'Today cinema is all about Batman, Superman, Iron Man: stuff I have no interest in seeing'."

Aaron Sorkin on Seymour Hoffman

And he said this: “If one of us dies of an overdose, probably 10 people who were about to won’t.” He meant that our deaths would make news and maybe scare someone clean. So it’s in that spirit that I’d like to say this: Phil Hoffman, this kind, decent, magnificent, thunderous actor, who was never outwardly “right” for any role but who completely dominated the real estate upon which every one of his characters walked, did not die from an overdose of heroin — he died from heroin. We should stop implying that if he’d just taken the proper amount then everything would have been fine. He didn’t die because he was partying too hard or because he was depressed — he died because he was an addict on a day of the week with a y in it. He’ll have his well-earned legacy — his Willy Loman that belongs on the same shelf with Lee J. Cobb’s and Dustin Hoffman’s, his Jamie Tyrone, his Truman Capote and his Academy Award. Let’s add to that 10 people who were about to die who won’t now.

Andreotti tinha mais piada

"Isto é um filme sobre o Penguin de Batman - o actor Toni Servillo faz com o seu corpo o que Danny deVito fez para ser Penguin."

Vasco Câmara no Ípsilon aquando da estreia nacional do admirável "Il Divo", de Paolo Sorrentino.

Rankings CN: Realizadores vs Realizadores

5. David Cronenberg sobre M. Night Shymalan:
"I hate that guy! Next question."
4. Francois Truffaut sobre Michelangelo Antonioni:
"Antonioni is the only important director I have nothing good to say about. He bores me; he’s so solemn and humorless."
3. Ingmar Berman sobre Orson Welles:
"For me he’s just a hoax. It’s empty. It’s not interesting. It’s dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of — is all the critics’ darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it’s a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie’s got is absolutely unbelievable."
2. Ingmar Bergman sobre Jean-Luc Godard:
"I’ve never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual, and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He’s made his films for the critics."
1. Vincent Gallo sobre Sofia Coppola:
"Sofia Coppola likes any guy who has what she wants. If she wants to be a photographer she’ll fuck a photographer. If she wants to be a filmmaker, she’ll fuck a filmmaker. She’s a parasite just like her fat, pig father was."

Como agarrar o espectador na primeira cena

"It’s not the greatest country in the world professor, that’s my answer. Sharon, the NEA is a loser, yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paycheck but he gets to hit you with it any time he wants. It doesn’t cost money, it costs votes, it costs air time, it costs column inches. You know why people don’t like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so fucking smart, how come they lose so god damn always? And with a straight face you’re going to tell students that America is so star spangled awesome that we’re the only ones in the world that have freedom? Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom. The UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, BELGIUM has freedom. So, 207 sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.

And you, sorority girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day there’s somethings you should know. One of them is there’s absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we’re the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, Number 4 in labor force and Number 4 in exports, we lead the world in only three categories: Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending where spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of a 20 year old college student, but you none the less are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. Yosemite?

It sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons. We passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were and we never beat our chests. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world’s greatest artists and the world’s greatest economy. We reached for the stars, acted like men, we aspired to intelligence, we didn’t belittle it, it didn’t make us feel inferior. We didn’t identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election and we didn’t scare so easy. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed, by great men, men who were revered. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore. Enough?"

Roger Ebert dixit

"What sets men apart from the beasts is our interest in things that took place before we were born, or will take place after we die."

Jean-Luc Godard dixit

"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun."

Catarina Carvalho dixit

"Woody Allen a filmar à beira-Tejo ou à beira-Douro faria mais por nós do que centenas de campanhas publicitárias da AICEP." [Notícias Magazine]

George A. Romero dixit

"As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I’m trapped in a genre that I love, but I’m trapped in it!"

Walt Disney dixit

"We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies."

There can be only one!

Jessica: We're at a funeral and you're quoting Highlander?
Harvey: Yeah, a lot of people die in it, seems appropriate.

Your move, chief.

So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that. If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. And look at you... I don't see an intelligent, confident man... I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fucking life apart. You're an orphan right? You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that do you sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.


Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin', 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.

Magic "quotes for" Mike

A propósito da estreia de "Magic Mike" em território nacional, ficam três frases memoráveis de críticos de cinema sobre trabalhos passados de Matthew McConaughey, Channing Tatum e... Steven Soderbergh, qualquer uma delas facilmente e previsivelmente reciclável para ser utilizada nas próximas semanas, ou não fosse este cartaz do filme uma prova viva disso mesmo.

Steven Soderbergh / Ocean's Eleven (2001) / Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader)
"As a serviceable empty-headed entertainment, possibly even more sexist than the original, it consolidates Steven Soderbergh's cultivated new profile as a compliant and competent industry hack"

Matthew McConaughey / Fool's Gold (2008) / Simon Braund (Empire Magazine)
"These days, McConaughey’s talent seems to be confined to keeping his shirt off for the maximum amount of time."

Channing Tatum / Step Up (2006) / Chris Tookey (The Daily Mail)
"Channing Tatum, a big, lumbering young man who resembles Josh Hartnett crossed with an elephant."

Kyle Smith dixit

"Alba is to acting what Judi Dench is to sex"
Por Kyle Smith, no New York Post, a propósito da estreia de "The Love Guru" em 2008.

Billy Wilder dixit

"A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard."

Woody Allen dixit

"If my film makes one more person miserable, I’ve done my job."

Quentin Tarantinto dixit

"If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies."

Orson Welles dixit

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts."

Frank Capra dixit

"If you want to send a message, try Western Union."