Elvis Mitchell

I spend most of my life not wanting to be found, and actually, I'm pretty good at it.

— Elvis Mitchell

It is fun to see a comedy in which every single joke hasn't been packed into the trailer.

— Elvis Mitchell

Selling tickets at the Bing Theater at LACMA was my first job in L.A.

— Elvis Mitchell

'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.

— Elvis Mitchell

Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.

— Elvis Mitchell

That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.

— Elvis Mitchell

My style icon has always been Sidney Poitier.

— Elvis Mitchell

Probably the worst thing that ever happened to the movies was the megahit.

— Elvis Mitchell

Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.

— Elvis Mitchell

'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose…

— Elvis Mitchell

If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights…

— Elvis Mitchell

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

Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.

— Elvis Mitchell

I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.

— Elvis Mitchell

One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a 'Pootie' sketch, when she…

— Elvis Mitchell

Scene by scene, you can't help being impressed by 'Mean Girls;' it's like a group of sketches linked by a theme, with…

— Elvis Mitchell

In Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann takes the most thrilling moments in a movie musical-the seconds before the actors are about to burst…

— Elvis Mitchell

Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged…

— Elvis Mitchell

Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her new setting and laying it all…

— Elvis Mitchell

The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those squirm-inducing moments in comedy that produce enough discomfort…

— Elvis Mitchell

If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, and Popeye is…

— Elvis Mitchell

My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it's an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid,…

— Elvis Mitchell

The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the 'Once Upon a Time in…

— Elvis Mitchell

I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope of my programming…

— Elvis Mitchell

I think if some people know anything about African cinema it's something like the The Gods Must Be Crazy, which is such…

— Elvis Mitchell

LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up.

— Elvis Mitchell

The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep.

— Elvis Mitchell

If somebody wants to attack my work, that's one thing - that, I'll respond to.

— Elvis Mitchell

My first paying job in Los Angeles was taking tickets at the Bing under Ron Haver.

— Elvis Mitchell

Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy.

— Elvis Mitchell

Tarantino thinks the Bing is a great room for comedy.

— Elvis Mitchell

I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment.

— Elvis Mitchell

Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died?

— Elvis Mitchell

Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation.

— Elvis Mitchell

Though finally overwhelmed by a preening lassitude, 'Hotel' is never less than fascinating, breaking into multiscreen scenarios like Mr. Figgis's 2000 experiment,…

— Elvis Mitchell

It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it is to play the…

— Elvis Mitchell

Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root-canal patient…

— Elvis Mitchell

People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them.

— Elvis Mitchell

Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.

— Elvis Mitchell

Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consumption and detrimental effects on health.

— Elvis Mitchell