“I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.” IfsTwoMatterHoursHalfWatchesAudienceImpossibleEightFascinatedDocumentariesWoodyHalf HoursBrando Author:Brett Ratner
“I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.” RunningRealizingRaceWatchesKnowingFiveWeekMinutesCarEightSpeedNosesBoredomMetalsTailsThrillBankingFive MinutesJohnsonScenariosIdenticalBlasphemyLumpsTerminalFreewaysHigh SpeedTurned OffNascarDerbyMphDemolitionDemolition Derby Author:Brock Yates
“Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.” KindTwoHalfWatchesJourneyEventsColdWalkingOceanShotsDetailsEightSurfaceDecadesMilesGravesClimbingClosestMagnificentDoomedEpicDocumentariesScopeSinkingDeckMotion PicturesOne HalfCameronRarityPeelingMeticulousBelow The SurfaceTime Capsules Author:James Berardinelli
“But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.” PeopleKnowsDifferentRunningKidsSchoolCoursesLiteratureAnimalWatchesMorningMillionsTelevisionReadyEightTeethBrushingDifferent Animals Author:Katie Couric
“Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.” MindBodyNightHoursSleepWatchesMinutesTvsBedEightCriticalNineSlow DownDisturbingInvigorating Author:Richard Simmons
“The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them that I think many people took them more seriously than they ought to have.” PeopleThinkingFirstsPersonsVoiceWatchesOughtMouthsInvestingEightFirst PersonInvestigating Author:Daniel Handler
“With the publishing of The Basic Eight, it was often assumed that I was really immature and callow, and with the publishing of Watch Your Mouth, it was assumed that I was oversexualized, and with Lemony Snicket, it's often assumed that I'm erudite and depressed. But all the voices more or less came naturally to me.” VoiceWatchesMouthsEightPublishingImmatureEruditeSnicket Author:Daniel Handler