Stewart’s interest in serious acting gives her something in common with Theron – and, like Theron, some of her most provocative work has come through working with women. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the complicated ‘Queen Ravenna’, and Stewart’s performance as ‘Snow White’, the fairest of them all, in her first action-heroine role, kept her literally in constant motion. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
Ravenna’ is, in many ways, the ultimate example of how a woman’s perception of herself can lead to this horrible road being taken. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it’s almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
I’ve been cheered by the reaction to what I’ve done with Film Independent at LACMA and the organizational support I’ve received in pursuing it. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
