David Kalat > Quotes

“Godzilla lovers to this day still wonder precisely what attracts them. Part of the appeal is the surprising sophistication in what seems at first glance to be simple-minded Saturday matinee fare. In the wreckage left in the wake of this awesome beast lies the tattered remains of human hubris, a moral lesson left smoldering in the ruins. As series producer Tomoyuki Tanaka put it, “As long as the arrogance of human beings exists, Godzilla will survive.”
― David Kalat, A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series

“Of the great German movie phantoms such as Caligari, Nosferatu and the Golem, only Mabuse inhabits the same world as the spectator; of literary monsters who have become lasting cinematic icons, figures like Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster and Jekyll and Hyde, only Mabuse hails from a twentieth century novel, about the twentieth century.”
― David Kalat, The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse: A Study of the Twelve Films and Five Novels