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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#action films #american #american family #audience #audiences

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american audiences #american films #asian #audiences #films

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#concrete #cyclic #each #entire #form

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#i #i can #kind #like #make

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american audience #audience #big #box #box office

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#back #both #different #different sets #formal

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#blown #earth #face #far #haven

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country? ↗

— Iris Chang

#boston #cities #class #country #discussion

Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#beating #bunch #experience #find #gangsters

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#just #line #lyrics #melodies #remain