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In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.
Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.
Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.
We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.
Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.
When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.
When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.
With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
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Abbey Lincoln
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