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My style icon has always been Sidney Poitier.
Tarantino thinks the Bing is a great room for comedy.
Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy.
'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.
LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up.
Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.
That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.
Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation.
Selling tickets at the Bing Theater at LACMA was my first job in L.A.
Probably the worst thing that ever happened to the movies was the megahit.
Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died?
If somebody wants to attack my work, that's one thing - that, I'll respond to.
My first paying job in Los Angeles was taking tickets at the Bing under Ron Haver.
I spend most of my life not wanting to be found, and actually, I'm pretty good at it.
I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment.
The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep.
It is fun to see a comedy in which every single joke hasn't been packed into the trailer.
There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.
Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.
The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich.
People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them.
Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema?
Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.
It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.
It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film.
Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director.
'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.
I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.
'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.
'Eight-Legged Freaks' runs out of gas scarily fast - its one-joke premise lends itself more to a short than a feature.
I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.
Real-life conduct aside, LaBeouf, a Los Angeles native, has been working steadily as an actor since he was 12 years old.
'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made.
One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers.
The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - I'm going to go into hip-hop.'
It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but 'Battlefield Earth' may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.
For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.
'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.
Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.
I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center.
A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.
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.
'Ravenna' is, in many ways, the ultimate example of how a woman's perception of herself can lead to this horrible road being taken.
In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career.
Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.
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.
'Never Die Alone' is primarily a riveting genre film that neatly exhibits the director's growing assurance - Donald Goines would be proud.
Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his fiction.
The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call.
Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consumption and detrimental effects on health.