Quotes About Melvin

In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed.

The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie.

The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success.

My son, he has a film group, a bunch of film nerds that sit around and screen movies, and when they had Mary Steenburgen Night, the two movies they screened were 'Melvin And Howard' and 'Clifford.'

What happened when 'Sweetback' made all that money, the studios were in a very difficult position. They wanted the money, but they didn't the message. This marked the advent of the caricatures which became known as blaxploitation.

I began to think that Melvin's approach through books was one way to examine these questions. His life required a certain amount of detachment from the community, and that was attractive to me.

Go sell crazy someplace else; we're all stocked up." (Melvin Udall aka Jack Nicholson, 1997)

Delfino said: "Melvin, you got a crazy in the head. All the time you give women money. Crap, me give maybe-so one dollar is plenty. She get the same satisfy as the mans. Crazy Melvin. Anyway, everybody in Hi Lo has made love to thees woman Marie." Melvin looked kind of sad and said, "Well, hell, Delfino, Hi Lo ain't such a big town.

Tar had a reason, plenty of reasons. The latest were painted on his face, too.