I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea.
I'm not afraid of anything other than spiritual annihilation. Where your soul is sucked into the void.
Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.
Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.
I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.