Road Movie Quotes

• The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hippie, Yawning, People

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic.

  Sam Mendes

  Simple, People, Joy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

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• Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.

  Sherman Alexie

  Sacred, Mystery, Tortillas

  Twitter post from Apr 28, 2014

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• In a way it was a modern story but it played to all those 1980 slasher movies. We did the same thing with this. Patrick wanted to do a 1970's road movie and if you'll see, this is a modern story but it's got so much 1970's in your face feel to it. So that was the point, to take that stuff that we loved growing up and sort of do it for today. I think we accomplished it. We'll see.

  Todd Farmer

  Growing Up, Thinking, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• I would agree Paul is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

  Nick Frost

  Sci Fi, Genre, Agree

  "Q&A With Nick Frost and Simon Pegg: Pockets of "Us-es" Everywhere". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 18, 2011.

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• 'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Doe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would've never done a 1970's road movie. It just wouldn't have occurred to me. So when he started talking about it he brought up all these movies and he'll do that with you guys and you'll feel the Goosebumps as you start realizing the story that he wanted to tell.

  Todd Farmer

  Talking, Guy, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a road movie [Valentine]. I mean, yes. We film it here and it takes place from basically Colorado to Louisiana. That's the road trip. So we're all over the place. We go through bits of Texas and bits of Oklahoma.

  Todd Farmer

  Valentine, Mean, Oklahoma

  Source: collider.com

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