"To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord."

-- Douglas Crimp

#Reality Quotes #Order Quotes #Cinema Quotes

“As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.”

Source : Michael Gruber (2010). “The Good Son: A Novel”, p.93, Macmillan
“I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' 'Pretty Woman,' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.”
“Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.”

Source : "Tinie Tempah interview: 'It's a new day, a new age, a new outlook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.
“The animal testing regime... is utterly futile”
“A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized”

Source : Girish Raghunath Karnad (1994). “Three Plays”, Oxford University Press
“I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.”
“It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?”
“In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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