“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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American film critic 1919–2001Related quotes
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 4: Beauty
Uwe Boll (1965) German restaurateur and former filmmaker
Uwe Boll Bites Back, 2006-06-13, Ellie Gibson, Eurogamer, 2006-02-15 http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62899, <br class="br">2000s
“I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.”
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Said while making Fitzcarraldo
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
“We're Nirvana and we really don't particularly like heavy metal.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
1990-08-17 at the Palladium, Hollywood, California
Stage banter
“A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.”
Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
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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.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), On Books and Reading
Quentin Tarantino (1963) American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor
Virgin.Net interview http://www.virgin.net/movies/interviews/quentin.html