Russian Movie Quotes

#1. 'Night Watch' itself is a very Russian movie. It's impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. It's a Russian reflection of American film culture.

Timur Bekmambetov

#2. I've done a Russian movie," Claire said. "Thank God they're still stuck in realism, Zola-crazy. Subtitling their films is like captioning a child's picture book.

Paula Fox

#3. Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product.

Richard Corliss

#4. The only way to love God is by loving His people

Sunday Adelaja

#5. I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#6. When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

John Irving

#8. Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think.

Paul Boutin

#9. One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.

Ethan Hawke

#10. I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals.

Josh Cooke

#11. I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.

Yakov Smirnoff

#12. God loves creatures who have become unlovely and (one would have thought) unlovable.

J.I. Packer