John Edgar Wideman Quotes

I call people by their initials when they're good buddies, and that's a kinda street thing, too - 'Here comes JF,' or, 'Here comes KC.' It's fun; it's intimate.

John Edgar Wideman

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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

Harmony Korine
- Time
- Pretty
- Beginning
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

Walter Kirn
- You
- Air
- Matter
In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

Usher
- Time
- Hair
- Grow
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

Vince Vaughn
- Know
- Film
- Nostalgia
Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.

Kate Brown
- Ethics
- Quiet
- Stone
We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.

Kate Brown
- Want
- Like
- Where