#pretentious

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#argue #being #country #fact #hip

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker. ↗

— John Milius

#filmmaker #films #more #nothing #pretentious

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden. ↗

— John Milius

#felt #heavy #i #just #leaden

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning. ↗

— Andy Milonakis

#arty #deep #deep meaning #films #i

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. ↗

— Lou Reed

#artists #create #ego #i #i think

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#breathe #cinema #could #guess #i

Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#overcoming-obstacles #pretend #pretentiousness #society #trust

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#narcissism #pretentiousness #vanity #vanity

In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#avoid #because #certain #cool #cup

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#becoming #entertainment #first #first of all #great