Manny Farber Before seeing ‘The Pride of the Yankees,’ you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect. – Manny Farber Indirect Quotes Pride Quotes Reference Quotes Referred Quotes Series Quotes Win Quotes Yankees Quotes The Big Sleep’ is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood’s underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart). Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.
Bill Viola In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn’t understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn’t understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one. – Bill Viola
Devin Townsend The way that I write is I just write a ton of music in the background of my life, and then I just bring it into rehearsal. It’s, like, ‘Okay, guys. It goes like this. Let’s smooth it out.’ – Devin Townsend
HistoryIsaac Newton There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. – Isaac Newton
Nicolas Winding Refn I know how terrifying L.A. can be, because I’ve been there as a failure. After ‘Drive,’ it was the most marvellous place in the universe. – Nicolas Winding Refn
Gary Oldman People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors. – Gary Oldman
Rob Ford I hate those damn streetcars – they are just a pain in the rear-end. You get behind them and you can’t get around them and then you get your cyclists too. – Rob Ford
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