"If youâ€™re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel."

-- Martin Scorsese

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“Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened. Some of it you would rather not think about, as you remember the pain and the sorrow. You also have time to worry about what will happen when you go into battle again.”

Source : Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.89, Penguin
“It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.”
“Painting is a state of being.”
“...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present?”
“I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful...”
“One hates an author that's all author.”
“I hate having my picture taken.”
“Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.”

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