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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.


Damien Hirst


#i #like #michelangelo #might #painter

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.


Damien Hirst


#always #because #came #colour #curtains

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.


Ian Hislop


#amazing #because #films #good #i

I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.


Ian Hislop


#being #i #often #opposite #true

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.


Ian Hislop


#after #another #bars #conducted #getting

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.


Ian Hislop


#british #eccentric #fat #longer #politics

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'


Alfred Hitchcock


#character #comes #discuss #his #i

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.


Alfred Hitchcock


#comes #dialogue #eyes #just #mouths

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.


Sarah Vowell


#morality #religion #religious-extremism #religion

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.


Alfred Hitchcock


#habits #house #indoor #inside #invention






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