Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" You can't ignore the Asian and Hispanic populations in L.A. We can let audiences know independent film is not just about white men. "
Elvis Mitchell
You
Ignore
Hispanic
Related Quotes:
" That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you. "
Elvis Mitchell
Part
Success
You
" If somebody wants to attack my work, that's one thing - that, I'll respond to. "
Elvis Mitchell
Work
One Thing
Attack
" For those not so taken by the star power, this new 'Ocean's Eleven' is the equivalent of a domineering team you can't stand that enters the Super Bowl. Even if you don't like the players, the odds are so good that it's tough to bet against them. "
Elvis Mitchell
Tough
Team
Good
" A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people. "
Elvis Mitchell
Black
People
Time
" I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like being the fastest midget in the circus. "
Elvis Mitchell
Like
Travel
Me
" With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines. "
Elvis Mitchell
His
Projects
Lyrics
" Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, and then marooning them there. No one else conjures the phantasmagoric and shifting morality of dreams - that fascinating and frightening aspect of having something that seems to represent good become evil - in the way this master Japanese animator does. "
Elvis Mitchell
Way
Wish
Evil
" When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in 'The Green Hornet' - as one of the drawings in Kato's notebook - it clarifies what the film is: an unrealized sketch. A sketch can afford to allude to a point of view. Moviemakers need to show their point of view, something this shrug of a movie never gets around to doing. "
Elvis Mitchell
View
Green
Need
" I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention. "
Elvis Mitchell
Beginning
Think
Some People
" The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form of the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.' "
Elvis Mitchell
May
Books
Film
" I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope of my programming purview at Film Independent. I salute David Ansen for his work with the festival and look forward to continuing to follow his example. "
Elvis Mitchell
Film
Work
Look
" Scene by scene, you can't help being impressed by 'Mean Girls;' it's like a group of sketches linked by a theme, with some playing much better than others. "
Elvis Mitchell
Others
Better
Group
" I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment. "
Elvis Mitchell
Ignore
Entertainment
Want
" Given how unflinching his productions have been, the 44-year-old McQueen is remarkably gentle and thoughtful - so much so that he will request a moment to consider a question, and turn it around in his head to get the shape and weight of it, before answering, occasionally with an excited rush of words in response. "
Elvis Mitchell
Moment
Question
Thoughtful
" The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker. "
Elvis Mitchell
Surprise
Artist
Director
" Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially caught the public's attention as a model - you may remember him from those greasy underwear ads with Eva Mendes, among many others. "
Elvis Mitchell
You
Remember
Attention
" Real-life conduct aside, LaBeouf, a Los Angeles native, has been working steadily as an actor since he was 12 years old. "
Elvis Mitchell
Los Angeles
Years
Old
" Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abrasive, magnetic daring and infectious self-love outside the ring galvanized the world and distracted many from his sniper's precision. He was a heavyweight with the fluttering gracefulness of a middleweight. "
Elvis Mitchell
Self-Love
Inside
Men
" The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.' "
Elvis Mitchell
Lost
Movies
Mood
" The Comedy of Emasculation that Judd Apatow and his disciples have made into a separate economy was invented by the Farrelly brothers, 'Kingpin' being the strongest version of that. "
Elvis Mitchell
Disciples
Brothers
Comedy
" In 'Requiem for a Dream,' the director Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s lower-depths novel, Jared Leto has lost so much weight, he looks like another person altogether. "
Elvis Mitchell
Dream
Looks
He
" Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy. "
Elvis Mitchell
Never
Become
Lighter
" The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "
Elvis Mitchell
First
Influence
Better
" People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them. "
Elvis Mitchell
Superman
Character
Think
" We want to see ourselves - but differently. We want to see these dream versions of ourselves. We want to be surprised; we want to be entertained. I think primarily, especially in this country, we ask that movies entertain us, which seems to be something they're less and less likely to do on a continual basis. "
Elvis Mitchell
Movies
Dream
Want
" Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her new setting and laying it all out in narration, this movie is just like home for the meticulous and ruthless deadpan that Ms. Fey has perfected for the satirical 'S.N.L.' newscast in which she and Jimmy Fallon are the anchors. "
Elvis Mitchell
Home
Her
She
" No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down to a central nervous system - his focus fried away unnecessary calories. "
Elvis Mitchell
Determination
Movies
Career
" Music is a big part of the director's life; Ms. Coppola's previous feature, a screen adaptation of 'The Virgin Suicides,' was informed more substantially by the score by the group Air than by the narrative. "
Elvis Mitchell
Air
Music
More
" The action comedy 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' raises one of the most overlooked and important cinematic questions of our time: Can a movie maintain the dramatic integrity of a theme park ride? "
Elvis Mitchell
Action
Integrity
Ride
" 'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. You might say that the movie walks it like it talks it; I'm not sure what Pootie would say. "
Elvis Mitchell
Notes
You
Like