The Grip of Film Quotes

“So I've tried to make this book as dense as possible, like a neutron star. And if you think I came up with that simile by googling 'What stuff is most dense?', you'd be wrong. I already knew neutron stars were maybe dense before I googled it to make sure.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

“Is there any moment in time when you‘re doing something better than watching Predator?”
― Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

“If a fleet of jet-black CHOPPERS ain't cresting over a back-lit hill by the end of Act II, you've got to start asking yourself whether this is a movie or a fucking art installation.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

“One of the reasons The Avengers is among the highest-grossing films of all time is that it’s filled with people who act for a living. They don’t care whether the dialogue makes any sense! For the correct fee, they’ll pretend it does!”
― Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

“There's a line in David Lean's punishingly long 1962 desert flick, Lawrence of Arabia: 'Truly for some men nothing is written unless they write it.'

Duh.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

“Remember the start of 2001: A Space Odyssey? Bunch of monkeys collecting bones. What‘s that got to do with space? They don‘t even have lasers!

Cut that shit.

And what about Citizen Kane? If they‘d wanted to gross some dollar, they should‘ve called it Dude, Where‘s My Sled?”
― Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

“What do you get when you watch a Mike Leigh film? Nothing. Except the uncomfortable feeling that a group of actors have been denied a writing credit.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

“Have you ever had a penile fraction? It hurts. It is caused by sudden trauma to an erect penis.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

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― Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film