The exploitation films were made in such an artless way with these big wide shots of Sunset Boulevard or of Arcadia or downtown L.A. or wherever. In mainstream films, especially in the 1980s, the Los Angeles you saw wasn`t the real one; it was a character with this back-lot sort of atmosphere. They tried to luxuriate it. In exploitation films, you see what the place really looked like, you see the bars and mom-and-pop restaurants.
- Quentin Tarantino(on Christopher Reeve) What seemed such a nice, simple, artless performance in "Superman" was the finest kind of acting. Reeve`s timing -- and humor -- has to be just about perfect to make the character come off.
- Sidney Lumet