I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of thes...e actors and directors, maybe we got something here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished ...and framed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since film is first visual, and then perhaps laden with intellectual content, the art form it most nearly seems to resemble is pai...nting. But since movies are moving pictures, perhaps sculpture is a better analogy or, since objects are perceived as moving in three dimensions, maybe architecture is better still.... If movies end as architectural objects in motion, they begin as construction projects. Making a movie is more like constructing a building on a vacant lot than like writing a book. The literary property is the lot. The movie is the building. The screenwriter is the architect, the director is the contractor, and the producer is theoretically the owner. The major studio (if one is involved) can represent the lending institution, the equity partner, and/or the leasing agent for the finished building. The artist, if we need to believe one is involved, is likely to be the lawyer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the movie woman's world is designed to remind us that a woman may live in a mansion, an apartment, or a yurt, but it's all the... same thing because what she really lives in is the body of a woman, and that body is allowed to occupy space only according to the dictates of polite society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I stopped reading movie magazines in the beauty parlor a couple of years ago because I could not accommodate any more information ...about something called the Lennon Sisters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times whe...n this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,... this blessing love gives again into our arms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suddenly, she wasn't drunk anymore. Her hand was steady and she was cool. Like somebody making funeral arrangements for a murder n...ot yet committed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,... Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »