"It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal with issues. It might be better to just make escapist comedies that don't touch on any issues. The people just get a cool lemonade, and then they go out refreshed, they enjoy themselves, they forget how awful things are and it helps them - it strengthens them to get through the day."

-- Woody Allen

#Issues Quotes #People Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.”
“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.”

Source : Vicki Baum (2016). “Grand Hotel”, p.119, New York Review of Books
“Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself”
“Photography's relationship with ***** is as old as photography. That kind of unholy relationship is formed from the very beginning, and there's a reason why: it's thoroughly enjoyable to be that voyeuristic. Voyeurism is a very old modality, and most of the history of photography is in some way related voyeurism.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile.”
“Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.”
“The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.”
“The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.”

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