Camille Paglia Quotes
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies.
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The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.
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In his later works Doesburg tried to destroy static expression by diagonal position of his lines. But in this way the feeling of physic equilibrium which is necessary to enjoy a work of art is lost.
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Manuscripts don't burn.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
