5 Quotes by Mark Kermode

Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the cinematic field of battle, rushing in where angels fear to tread, even when the patient is clearly without a pulse.

The audience cheered. I died a little inside. The rest is history.

Some people say that I talk too fast, but I think it’s just that they listen too slowly.

I like bonkers!

Then she gave me a signed photograph of herself, in a swimming pool, in an affectionate embrace with a dolphin. She looked really happy in the picture – presumably dolphins don’t care about the bloody Exorcist.