‘Films are made to be seen at the cinema.’
Author - Andrew Thayne
Born in Luton, Gross Britannia, my life ambition was to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. But, as I entered my teens, after being introduced to the films of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan (at an illegal age, I might add), it soon dawned on me that this ambition was merely a liking for the kung-fu genre. On being exposed to the works of Akira Kurosawa, Wong Kar-wai, Yimou Zhang and Katsuhiro Otomo while still at a young age, this liking grew into a love of Asian cinema in general.
When not eating dry cream crackers, I like to critique footballing performances, drink a beer, pretend to master the Japanese and Hungarian languages and read a book.
I have a lot of sugar in my diet, but not much salt.
‘If your crying all year round, you’re in the wrong line of work.’
‘Without us, Edo is just a big pile of sh*t.’
‘All of our lives were being sustained by the nature in Shiretoko.’
‘Realising that I can’t love someone from the bottom of my heart.’
“They get killed. They die. They are murdered.”
‘I just felt devastated. Like we’d lost everything.’
“It gets really complicated. There’s a lot to explain.”
“They get older and weaker day by day. So don’t ever give up. You’re eternally younger than those idiots.”