#un

There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#called #children #dark #directing #events

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#dog #frank #funny #get #i

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#best #lunatics #mad #most #people

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#analogy #art #commentary #criticism #even

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#american #committed #continue #country #equality

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#militants #only #signs #surrealism #thought

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. ↗

— Sophocles

#flung #good #hands #hold #ignorant

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #future #lost #neglects #past

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter. ↗