Anne Fontaine Quotes
Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
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It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
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As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.
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Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.
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It was mostly an aura about him. For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
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If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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Even among the angels, there is the sadness of division.
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By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.
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Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.
