Audience Quote by David Strathairn

I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or…

— Rod Steiger

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And…

— V. S. Naipaul

We need to take a step back and realize that what happened in the 1950s, when he started his career, is exactly where we…

— Alex Stapleton

Film has changed vastly in the time that I've been an actor, and it's, I think, very much for the better. I think there…

— John Hurt

What I loved about the 1950s is that there is an aesthetic to even the average film. The way the camera is placed, the…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade…

— Woody Allen

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

— A. O. Scott

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in…

— Harmony Korine

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

— Tilda Swinton

You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians. Film is…

— Dennis Hopper

The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces,…

— Guy Maddin