“My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.” Quote by Matthew Specktor
“Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas.” ThinkingWorldLongIdeasGrowsTwentiesI RealizedTeenagerTake MeSmarterEgotistical Author:Matthew Specktor
“I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!” GivingSonEnjoymentWowPersonal LifeMuch LoveProfessional Life Author:Elton John
“One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.” CitiesPerceptionNegativeWeird Things Author:Matthew Specktor
“When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea.” PeopleIdeasMovedNo IdeaHatedEarly 20s Author:Matthew Specktor
“Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.” PersonsSometimesSeemsCelebrationRidiculePrelude Author:Matthew Specktor
“You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he got fat. They're not allowed the dignity of ordinary failure. And I think that plays into people's notions about Los Angeles, too. It's not allowed to be a regular city with problems.” PeopleThinkingLooksPlayProblemCitiesOrdinaryDignityAbsolutesNotionFatsFallenLos AngelesTomsScornCruiseBrando Author:Matthew Specktor
“The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.” IndividualProcessStudiosDecadesScalesFilmmaking Author:Matthew Specktor
“The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.” FeelsEndsRunningFilmRecordsStudiosStuckFeaturesNeedlesGroove Author:Matthew Specktor
“People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.” PeopleThinkingKindEconomicModelsStudiosCollapseClosingEconomic Models Author:Matthew Specktor
“100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.” WayMightUsedMillionsCostLimitsDollarsUsed To BeSooner Or LaterNew WaysMillion Dollars Author:Matthew Specktor