Festival Quote by Elvis Mitchell

No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down…

— Elvis Mitchell

There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.

— Elvis Mitchell

The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form…

— Elvis Mitchell

What we're most aware of in 'Eight-Legged Freaks' is how similar it is to other movies, a recombinant mutated species itself, the product of…

— Elvis Mitchell

Watching daring, high-tech criminals in action, I have the same thought that probably occurs to other moviegoers: if these guys just held on to…

— Elvis Mitchell

The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a…

— Elvis Mitchell

Some people bring their work home with them. You might suppose that Sid Mashburn is one of those guys - the man was born…

— Elvis Mitchell

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…

— Elvis Mitchell

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

— Elvis Mitchell

Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of…

— Elvis Mitchell

The Ebert thing just didn't work out. We just couldn't, like, come to an agreement. And 'Movieline', they obviously didn't want me, because they…

— Elvis Mitchell

I've been cheered by the reaction to what I've done with Film Independent at LACMA and the organizational support I've received in pursuing it.

— Elvis Mitchell