One of two films I've ever re-watched from the beginning right after I watched it the first time. (The other being Serenity.)

It's kind of like Star Wars and The Beatles. If you don't like Shawshank Redemption, I wonder what's wrong with your brain.

Also, the comment about the exec reading Fahrenheit 451 and commenting that it's too smart to be made—ugh.

I miss the new Hollywood of the 1970s. I miss character development. I miss Akira Kurosawa and John Cassavetes.

Good thing independent cinema has so many means of being made, right now.

This makes me want to re-watch all the great art-house stuff that we got this summer.

"Get busy living, or get busy dying... You're God-damned right." It's been my motto ever since I saw the film in the theatre.

I never tire of it and it always makes me tear up at the end.