Re: film & reality(some quotes about films)
Gene Woo (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:58:51 -0800 (PST)
"It's not that I want to create some bullshit mystique
by maintaining a silence
about my personal life, it is just that the less you
know about me the easier it is
to convince you that I am that character on screen.
It allows an audience to come
into a movie theatre and believe I am that person."
-Kevin Spacey
`Men reject their prophets and slay them, but
they love their martyrs and honour those whom
they have slain. '' -Dostoevsky
"I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want
everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses
and changing your voice. It's become so much about
personality"
-Skeet Ulrich
"My interest lies in my self-expression-what's inside
of me-not what I'm in." -John Turturro
"It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time"
-John Travolta
"A film is or should be more like music than like
fiction. It should be a progression of moods and
feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotions, the
meaning, all that comes later."
-Stanley Kubrick
--- William Hochman <wh14@is9.nyu.edu> wrote:
> I think it's interesting that Scottie thinks writing
> portrays reality and
> not film...I think I understand how truths about
> reality happen in prose
> and poetry in ways that touch us but I also think
> that whether we are
> talking about celuloid or paper and ink, the
> illusions of reality are the
> function of imagination, not genre. Will
>
>
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