January 2012
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Modern Maturity: In Deeper Into Movies, you described movies as a “supremely pleasurable and dangerous art form. “I get the pleasurable part, but what’s so dangerous?
Pauline Kael: At a movie house, you feel alone with the image and you’re affected deeply. The different elements that go into movies—music, cinematography, actors, design—get to you very strongly. That’s why so many educated people disapprove of movies; they’re not used to giving themselves over to that much emotion. They prefer the distance they can keep in legitimate theater.
MM: Is that why so-called intellectuals often prefer European films?
Kael: Yes, and they associate greatness with foreign films. We tend to think of art as European; there’s an embarrassment about art in America. But The Godfather changed that for a lot of people. When The Godfather II came out and you got the full dimensions of that family, you had a hard time not using the word “great.” Still, I think educated people feel more at home with Czech and Australian films full of humane little lessons.
MM: You dislike humane little lessons?
Kael: Lessons are for television movies about homosexuality or somebody’s sickness; that’s why they’re so boring.
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“Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit...”
– James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime
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“If that’s holiday as in “utterly removed from any sense of immediate...”
– William Gibson, The best holiday reads | Books | The Guardian
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“Oh, I don’t want introspection. I don’t like to look at myself. (Why?) I’ve...”
– Werner Herzog, em entrevista à GQ. (via ranchocarne)
Q: What a beautiful sweater.
A: Thank you. I don’t want to worry about machines.
Q: What do you worry about?
A: I was standing on the corner waiting for the light to change when I noticed, across the street among the people there waiting for the light to change, an extraordinarily handsome girl who was looking at me. Our eyes met, I looked away, then I looked again, she was looking away,...
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