The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.
Interpretation
Movies evoke a shared emotional experience that connects people beyond the screen.
Pauline Kael suggests that the allure of cinema extends beyond just the narratives and characters portrayed. It lies in the collective experience and emotional resonance shared among audiences, where individuals connect with each other through their reactions and feelings toward the film, creating a sense of community around these shared dreams and experiences.
In practice
During a film discussion panel, to highlight the emotional connections formed through cinema.
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.
Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of ethnicity, and how they intermingle across cultures.
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.
And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.
It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.