“For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.”
"The Perils of Being Pauline," interview with Francis Davis, The New Yorker (October 2001).
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Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 4: Beauty
Uwe Boll Bites Back, 2006-06-13, Ellie Gibson, Eurogamer, 2006-02-15 http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62899,
2000s
“I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.”
Said while making Fitzcarraldo
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
“We're Nirvana and we really don't particularly like heavy metal.”
1990-08-17 at the Palladium, Hollywood, California
Stage banter
“A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.
“The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.”
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), On Books and Reading
Virgin.Net interview http://www.virgin.net/movies/interviews/quentin.html