"I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had."

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Source : "Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris" by Kent Jones, www.filmcomment.com. May/June 2005.

Andrew Sarris

#Nice Quotes #People Quotes #Directors Quotes

“Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)”
“Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.”
“I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.”
“You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!”
“When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if the gentian yielded up its blueness, its very essence, to him. Everything he met had the newness of a creation just that moment come into being.”

Source : Frieda Lawrence (2017). “Not I, But the Wind... by Frieda Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.31, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive
“I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality”
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
“We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planetâ€™s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?”

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