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"If you love films and care about filmmakers, you'll have a hard time putting this book down. These lively conversations reveal just how much one generation of filmmakers influences the next - and how a single movie can change the course of a young person's life and career."
-Leonard Maltin, author of Leanord Martin's Movie Guide -
"A great and provocative read. Elder begins with a simple question and leads a wide variety of filmmakers down all sorts of unexpected paths. Why do we respond so passionately, even irrationally, to the movies that change our lives? The wonderful thing about being a critic or a lifelong movie lover is that life changes all the time in relation to the spells being cast on the screen. Elder's book honors that alchemic relationship many times over. It's addictive."
-Michael Phillips, film critic, Chicago Tribune
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Bill Condon on Bonnie and Clyde:
Bill Condon on Bonnie and Clyde: “In Bonnie and Clyde, there’s a sense that each step that each character takes, they realize that they’ve just kind of signed their own death sentence. They’ve become these outlaws; they’ve crossed the line.”
Peter Bogdanovich on Citizen Kane:
“It’s probably the most pessimistic, downbeat film about America ever made, because no one wins anything, everything’s sad, there’s no happy ending. On any level. [laughs]”
Richard Kelly on Brazil:
“You have to give Terry, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown credit for explaining what was wrong with the world in very elegant strokes that are alien to us because the world is not our own, but it is incredibly familiar because it is absolutely our own.”
Danny Boyle on Apocalypse Now:
“…voiceover is normally criminal in a film, in a way, because it actually robs you of what you’re meant to do. You’re meant to be experiencing a visual journey. But it’s so perfect, “Never get out of the boat, absolutely goddamn right.” It’s the greatest use of voiceover.”