#vie

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#around #better #change #horrible #like

There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental. ↗

— Billie Piper

#coming #ever #experimental #films #great

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#different #different angles #different ways #direct #directors

And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#assemble #because #could #enjoyment #even

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#been #books #highly #i #look

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#i #images #knew #me #movie

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#art #essentially #exists #happens #know

I always look for an intense experience, an intense ride. There is nothing better than a good zombie movie where you run crazy and blow at monsters! It was a physical shoot and I enjoyed it. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#better #blow #crazy #enjoyed #experience

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#any #back #beginning #compliment #confronts

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#almost #another #because #countenance #elements