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- Nov 07, 2020
Picture Quotes
On screen roles, old movies, and the camera's eye.
Here the word picture mostly means film - an actor discussing how to play a villain convincingly, and a childhood movie memory vivid enough to cause literal nightmares for years. Related viewing continues in Life.
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- Cheating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person - either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being 'good enough' to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn't paint the entire picture.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The picture is being promoted as Disney's 'Spirited Away,' although seeing just 10 minutes of this English version of a hugely popular Japanese film will quickly disabuse any discerning viewer of the notion that it is a Disney creation.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is evident that the grip of 'The Return of the King' on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it's tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow?
- Events
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.
- Easiest Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
The easiest way to propagandize people is to let a propaganda theme go in through an entertainment picture when people do not realize they are being propagandized.
- Nov 07, 2020
I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'The Last Picture Show,' Peter Bogdanovich brought the script to the company that made it. They liked it, and they gave him the money he needed to make the film. He cast it with the actors that he thought were right for the parts. Now, it's the reverse.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am having my picture taken, I channel Beyonce. In the studio, my inspiration is Adele.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020