“Friedan: I thought it was absolutely outrageous that the Silence of the Lambs won four Oscars. […] I'm not saying that the movie shouldn't have been shows. I'm not denying the movie was an artistic triumph, but it was about the evisceration, the skinning alive of women. That is what I find offensive. Not the Playboy centerfold.”
The Playboy Interview (1992)
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On developing a sensitivity for authentic details in the making of movies, Salon (17 October 1997).
'Sharknado's' Ian Ziering: 'Maybe This Is My Pulp Fiction Moment' http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sharknados-ian-ziering-maybe-is-my-pulp-fiction-moment-584659 (July 12, 2013)
“I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!”
Tom, Scene Six
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Context: Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!
At the Academy Awards as host
Miscellaneous
Interview http://www.crankycritic.com/qa/branaghkline.html at CrankyCritic.com
The Costco Connection magazine interview, February 2007 http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200702/?pg=30
"A Living 'Hellraiser'", The Daily Bruin, Thursday, May 7, 1992
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/american-pie-1999 of American Pie (9 July 1999)
Reviews, Three star reviews
“I didn't stop dreaming until I finished the film. But the dream was the movie, not the Oscar.”
O interview (2003)
Context: I wanted to win it for one specific reason — to send the Oscar to the Frida Kahlo House in Mexico, where Frida herself once lived. It's going to bring a tear to my eye now. I wanted every Mexican who walked into that museum to remember that what motivated me to make this movie, to dream this dream, had everything to do with where I came from — and I didn't stop dreaming until I finished the film. But the dream was the movie, not the Oscar.