Making a film that’s supposed to be fun to watch is really hard – that’s the weird irony of it.

— Steven Soderbergh, director of TRAFFIC, ERIN BROCKOVICH, OCEANS ELEVEN and MAGIC MIKE.

“The only thing standing between you and a watery grave is your wits, and that’s not my idea of adequate protection.”

— Billy Dannreuther (Humphrey Bogart) in BEAT THE DEVIL, directed by John Huston and written by Truman Capote in 1953.

“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.”

— Pauline Kael, film critic at The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991

“Why didn’t they just turn it off? You know, they called the police. Why didn’t they turn it off? That’s what I did when Forrest Gump started running.”

— In the late 1980s, director John Waters was sued by a family that had naively rented and watched more than half of PINK FLAMINGOS after enjoying his decidedly more benign HAIRSPRAY.