It's Only a Movie Quotes

“we were alive, together, and conscious, aware of our own mortality, but thrilled by the fact of our own ridiculous existence.”
― Mark Kermode, It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive

“Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television’.”
― Mark Kermode, It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive

“I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder.”
― Mark Kermode, It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive

“Then she gave me a signed photograph of herself, in a swimming pool, in an affectionate embrace with a dolphin. She looked really happy in the picture – presumably dolphins don’t care about the bloody Exorcist.”
― Mark Kermode, It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive

“The truth, which should be apparent to anyone with a vaguely cynical soul, is that 3-D will always be the past, and is only being rammed down our throats as something excitingly ‘new’ right now because it is much harder to pirate 3-D films than good old flat ones. Big Hollywood studios want you to believe in 3-D because they want to carry on believing in their own bank accounts. It has nothing to do with ‘the future’ of cinema, merely the future of film finance.”
― Mark Kermode, It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive

“Was he joking? Would he really have shot Kinski? ‘I said it very quietly so he understood that it was not a joke. But the story then took on a life of its own, until today you can read that I directed him only at gunpoint from behind the camera! That’s baloney. It never happened like that. When I talked to him, I did not have a gun in my hands. However, I did have a gun …”
― Mark Kermode, It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive