Os realizadores preferidos de Welles

"I prefer the old masters; by which I mean: John Ford, John Ford and John Ford."

CAPITALISMO

"You know what capitalism is? Getting fucked!"

Tony Montana in Scarface (1982)

Leone

LEONE POLÍTICO - "Politics no longer make any sense in Italy! That's why I make the films I do. We believed in mankind and mankind has let us down...As intellectuals, we have resigned ourselves, tired of the battle...Me, I live apart and don't give a damn about anything."

LEONE CINEASTA - "You can't shoot a film as if you were putting a salami into its skin. From a project like [Kurosawa's] Ran or Once Upon a Time in America, you come away dry in the mouth, with your head in flames and your soul in shreds."

LEONE CINÉFILO - "The [John] Ford film I like most of all...is also the least sentimental, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...Ford finally, at the age of almost sixty-five, finally understood what pessimism is all about. In fact, with that film Ford succeeded in eating up all his previous words about the West...Because Liberty Valance shows the conflict between political forces and the single, solitary hero of the West...He loved the West and with that film at last he understood it."

Os oscars e Sick Boy

Sick Boy: All I'm trying to do is help you understand that The Name of The Rose is merely a blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory.
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: What about The Untouchables?
Sick Boy: I don't rate that at all.
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Despite the Academy Award?
Sick Boy: That means fuck all. Its a sympathy vote.

Sublime

"Mais vale morrer como um homem bom, que viver como um monstro."

Estrelas de Cinema por Robert Mitchum

Q.Mitch, what does it take to make a movie star?

A. Somebody asked my wife once, what's your idea of your husband? And she answered: He's a masturbation image. Well, that's what we all are. Up there on the screen, our goddamn eyeball is six feet high, the poor bastards who buy tickets think you really amount to something.

Last Action Hero

""What is best in life: Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!" Conan the Barbarian

"I'm not into politics, I'm into survival" The Running Man

"Oh, you think you're bad, huh? You're a fucking choir boy compared to me! A CHOIR BOY! " The End Of Days

"You're a funny man, Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last. " Comando

"You're one... *ugly* motherfucker! " Predator

" I'll be back! Ha! You didn't know I was gonna say that, did you? " Last Action Hero

"Enough talk! " Conan The Destroyer

A violência no cinema

"People love seeing violence and horrible things. The human being is bad and he can't stand more than five minutes of happiness. Put him in a dark theater and ask him to look at two hours of happiness and he'd walk out or fall asleep"

Paul Verhoeven

Diálogos que ficam

"Guy. Gets on a subway. Dies.Think anybody'll notice? "

A motivação do actor segundo mestre Hitch

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.' "

citação idiota da semana

"The united states government as just aked us to save the world. Anybody wants to say no?"

Bruce Willis in armageddon

- A mim pagaram-me 15 milhões + percentagem, para entrar nesta m&%#@. E a ti?

a good screenplay

Numa altura que ando a relêr o excelente Oliver Stone Interviews, da já obrigatória série Conversations with Filmmakers, deixo aqui uma citação neste domingo dedicado ao trabalho de escrita.

"I don´t think a good director can make a good film with a bad screenplay, but a bad director can deliver an acceptable film if he has a good screenplay."

Oliver Stone