Marina Abramovic Quotes

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

Marina Abramovic

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• My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • She
  • American
  • Grandmother