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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
-
Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
-
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
-
When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
-
Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
-
I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
-
I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
-
In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
-
Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
-
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
-
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
-
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
-
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.
-
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?
-
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
-
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.
-
Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
-
I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
-
In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
-
If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
-
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.
-
I never pictured myself being liked by anybody.
-
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
-
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
