reacting on the idea of art-historian Dore Ashton of the 'colonizing emptiness' of her paintings
1970s - 1980s, interview with Deborah Salomon in 'New York Times', 1989
“I don’t make pictures just to make money. I make money to make more pictures. ”
After hearing Walter Earl Brown's If I Can Dream, the song inspired on Martin Luther King Jr. that would close Elvis' comeback show in 1968, and the phrase was remarked to its producer, Steve Binder. http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/lofiversion/index.php/t15948.html
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a13040159/billie-eilish-interview/
“Don't make these pictures any better. Just keep them the way they are.”
Of the successful Andy Hardy films.
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed)
Quote from an interview with w:Elaine de Kooning, 'Hans Hofmann paints a picture', 1950; in Artnews, February 1950, 38 (article 38-41 and 58-59)
1950s
Fred Astaire in a letter to his agent Leland Hayward dated February 9, 1934. He went on to make a further nine musical films with Rogers.
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Fred Astaire in a letter to his agent Leland Hayward dated February 9, 1934. He went on to make a further nine musical films with Rogers. (M).
“I will only make pictures that I won't be ashamed to have my children see.”
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed)
“I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.”
Fred Astaire to Henry Ephron, screenwriter on Daddy Long Legs, as quoted in Ephron, Henry. We Thought We Could Do Anything: The Life of Screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron, New York: Norton, 1977, p. 131. (M).
quoted in Evans, Liz (1994). Women, Sex and Rock 'n' Roll: In Their Own Words, p. 217. London, Pandora.
