Elvis Mitchell quote: "The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form of the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.'"

Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her n...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It'...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitl...
ELVIS MITCHELL

If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, an...
ELVIS MITCHELL

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we'r...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The picture is being promoted as Disney's 'Spirited Away,' although seeing just 10 minut...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation.
ELVIS MITCHELL

Given how unflinching his productions have been, the 44-year-old McQueen is remarkably gentle and th...
ELVIS MITCHELL

People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them.
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged g...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich.
ELVIS MITCHELL

The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those sq...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.
ELVIS MITCHELL

Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-...
ELVIS MITCHELL

It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the audi...
ELVIS MITCHELL

One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a &...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The action comedy 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' raises one of the mos...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Old School' is so breezy it could be a late-night talk show, especially when Craig Kilborn,...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the compl...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like p...
ELVIS MITCHELL

His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated '...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman wit...
ELVIS MITCHELL

In 'Requiem for a Dream,' the director Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr....
ELVIS MITCHELL

One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Mal...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi l...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a M...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, an...
ELVIS MITCHELL

If Mr. Chan ever makes another movie like 'The Tuxedo,' it's American audiences that wil...
ELVIS MITCHELL

What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a j...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up st...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'8 Mile' could do without an unnecessary class swipe. In a final throwdown, Rabbit clowns a ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consump...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks lik...
ELVIS MITCHELL

I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope o...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simul...
ELVIS MITCHELL

With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the exi...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that's 10 years older than he is ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Plan Nine From Outer Space' for a new generation, 'Battlefield Earth' is set in the...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Whom do you feel sorrier for: the cast of 'Boat Trip' or their children? Remember, kids can ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experien...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid a...
ELVIS MITCHELL

No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the '...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Rep...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Ali' is a breakthrough for its director, Michael Mann. The film, based on the life of Muham...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly &#...
ELVIS MITCHELL

You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government...
ELVIS MITCHELL

It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it i...
ELVIS MITCHELL

It's an oddity that will be avoided by millions of people, this new 'Pinocchio.' Osama b...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.
ELVIS MITCHELL

It's so funny: whenever there's a new technology introduced, there's always this fear it...
ELVIS MITCHELL

In 'Windtalkers,' the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the re...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abras...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,&#...
ELVIS MITCHELL

When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in 'The Green Hornet' - as one of the drawings in Kato's n...
ELVIS MITCHELL

A little of the sketch character Pootie Tang went a long way on HBO's now late, probably soon to...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers&#...
ELVIS MITCHELL

If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. Th...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Micha...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from sc...
ELVIS MITCHELL

I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like bei...
ELVIS MITCHELL

One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissan...
ELVIS MITCHELL

In 'Training Day,' Mr. Washington's dry-ice grandeur - the predator's reflexes contr...
ELVIS MITCHELL

One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: t...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Ah just act the way ah feel.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
ELVIS COSTELLO

When things go wrong, don't go with them.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
ELVIS PRESLEY

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing th...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting th...
ELVIS COSTELLO

if u know how to use your mind , you dont need a million bucks to make you feel like your in paradis...
ELVIS HODZIC

I don't make no dirty movements
ELVIS PRESLEY

It more or less puts your mind at ease, ... It does mine.
ELVIS PRESLEY

We're all just waiting to see what changes, if any, will be made,
ELVIS PRESLEY

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
ELVIS COSTELLO

Oh, I know that she's disgusted,
cause she's feeling so abused.
She gets tired of the lust...
ELVIS COSTELLO

It's a breath you took too late.
It's a death that's worse than fate.
ELVIS COSTELLO

No use wishing now for any other sin.
ELVIS COSTELLO

So you take her to the pictures,
trying to become a fixture.
Inch by inch trying to reach ...
ELVIS COSTELLO

When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you fi...
ELVIS STOJKO

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, ...
ELVIS PRESLEY

That is a factor that has helped sentiment today. Canada is a prime target for many overseas buyers ...
ELVIS PICARDO

It's a very low-pressure thing. It's a chance for people to have a good time and maybe meet someone ...
ELVIS DURAN

I never thought that could happen.
ELVIS DUMERVIL

The offense did a great job, the defense did a great job. It was an overall great team effort.
ELVIS DUMERVIL

We've got a lot of packages we're going to throw at him. Not a lot extra, but there's two big things...
ELVIS DUMERVIL

But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.
ELVIS COSTELLO

There's no such thing as an original sin.
ELVIS COSTELLO

Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about ...
ELVIS STOJKO

You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fres...
ELVIS STOJKO

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's w...
ELVIS PRESLEY

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to ge...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
ELVIS PRESLEY

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justific...
ELVIS COSTELLO

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going...
ELVIS COSTELLO

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do
ELVIS COSTELLO

The words that are being spoken are serious, whether you take them at face value or listen to them a...
ELVIS COSTELLO

I've been asked to sing and that's what I do. People come (to this event) for all the right reasons.
ELVIS COSTELLO

better stick to driving trucks.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch "Rebel Without a Cause" a hund...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the w...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I'll stay in Memphis.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production,...
ELVIS PRESLEY

She's no angel.
He's no saint.
ELVIS COSTELLO

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
ELVIS PRESLEY

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I think next week's meeting will be absolutely crucial. If the half-point rate cut is not materializ...
ELVIS PICARDO

The Drake Relays is invitation only. We have a number of kids that won't compete this weekend. We're...
ELVIS FORDE

Of course, that may be all they have in common, ... But there's always a chance you'll meet someone ...
ELVIS DURAN

The second half he came out and the crowd got into it and he got a lot of energy. Momentum swung the...
ELVIS DUMERVIL

It basically shows he's a no-character person. My left knee still hurts. He was talking garbage the ...
ELVIS DUMERVIL

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.
ELVIS PRESLEY

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY

When I get married, it'll be no secret.
ELVIS PRESLEY

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find somet...
ELVIS STOJKO

I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself th...
ELVIS STOJKO

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
ELVIS STOJKO

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.
ELVIS STOJKO

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got th...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
ELVIS PRESLEY

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write ...
ELVIS COSTELLO

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
ELVIS PRESLEY

'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two w...
ELVIS COSTELLO

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, pu...
ELVIS PRESLEY

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
ELVIS PRESLEY

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn ...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Seems to me, that the worlds are moving closer together rather than one invading the other. I believ...
ELVIS COSTELLO

There's no such thing as an original sin.
ELVIS COSTELLO

The songs will tell a story that I have imagined existing between the lines of Andersen's biography ...
ELVIS COSTELLO

Then I recalled that Andersen belongs to the world,
ELVIS COSTELLO

This rally looks sustainable because the gains are smaller. It is not like you have a 250-point gain...
ELVIS PICARDO

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody . . . . Country musi...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one
ELVIS PRESLEY

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dolla...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth)
ELVIS PRESLEY

When things go wrong don't go with them
ELVIS PRESLEY

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
ELVIS PRESLEY

Despite whatever has happened, investors are still in the mood for a bargain.
ELVIS PICARDO

I definitely thought it was intentional. My left knee is still hurting. He's just a no-character ind...
ELVIS DUMERVIL

His talent speaks for itself. We've got to step up our 'A' game and keep him from getting loose. You...
ELVIS DUMERVIL

It would be a surprise if people thought I would be playing a lot of rock 'n' roll.
ELVIS COSTELLO

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
ELVIS STOJKO

People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. ...
ELVIS COSTELLO

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to s...
ELVIS COSTELLO

I'm no hillbilly singer.
ELVIS PRESLEY

When I Was Cruel.
ELVIS COSTELLO

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to ...
ELVIS STOJKO

I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I...
ELVIS STOJKO

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds pe...
ELVIS COSTELLO

Songs are more powerful than books.
ELVIS COSTELLO

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
ELVIS COSTELLO

I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
ELVIS COSTELLO

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
ELVIS COSTELLO

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
ELVIS COSTELLO

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
ELVIS PRESLEY

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigare...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I never expected to be anybody important.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do
ELVIS COSTELLO

if u know how to use your mind , you dont need a million bucks to make you feel like your in paradis...
ELVIS HODZIC

I find humming is very useful.
ELVIS COSTELLO

I learned a lot from 'Elvis' because it wasn't just the impersonator I had to watch,
ELVIS PRESLEY

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put i...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I am hands on with this with Bruno,
ELVIS PRESLEY

The interior of the car consists of reupholstered seats, as well as Elvis' initials on the inside of...
ELVIS PRESLEY

The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form of the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.'

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The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form of the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.'

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