Armond White famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.
-- Armond White

#Afterlife #Marketing #Nihilism
Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.
-- Armond White

#Names #Imagination #Stories
Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises.
-- Armond White

#Potters #Harry Potter
Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.
-- Armond White

#Smart #Tv Shows #Fake
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.
-- Armond White

#Teenage #Dark #Past
The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
-- Armond White

#Men #White #Political
Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!
-- Armond White

#Realism

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.
And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads,
I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
The point is there ain't no point.

Armond White famous quotes

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