Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic
from Los Angeles Free Press, March 22, 1968. Gene Youngblood
“People go to the movies instead of moving!”
Tom, Scene Six
Source: 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!
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“I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
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!
“I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.”
Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist
Polanski : His Life and Films (1982)
Stephanie Zacharek (1963) American film critic
Unintelligent Agent, Salon.com, 1997-01-17, 2006-08-25, http://web.archive.org/web/20000930123506/http://www.salon.com/media/media970117.html, 2000-09-30 http://www.salon.com/media/media970117.html,
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"The Perils of Being Pauline," interview with Francis Davis, The New Yorker (October 2001).
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“Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.”
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Interview for Vogue magazine, November 2008.
