#tis

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#british #colonial #compromise #danger #film

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. ↗

— Jack Lemon

#audience #himself #his #need #really

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#old #our #pleasures #recall #refine

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#endorse #kinds #left #pepsi #simply

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#civilization #despotism #each #economic #equal

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#beyond #bruce #bruce lee #fundamentals #go

Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#am #artist #first #first time #going

I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#artist #career #christie #feel #i

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#20th century #advertising #art form #century #form

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#culture #free #get #paid #property