Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott (A. O. Scott) Quotes
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
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You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.
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In 1956, the success of the Hammer films kick-started my career. That immediately gave me a name and a face to go with it. I will always be grateful to Hammer for that.
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I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
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I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?
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Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
