Intellectually the French are wonderfully open, in a way the British just don’t begin to be. You can question ideas in France, endlessly. In Britain, two things happen when you do that. Either you’re branded an intellectual, which is fundamentally mistrusted, or you’re branded a phony and pretentious, which people despise. Monty Don Read Quote
It’s not new to attempt to vilify the minority that speaks about their oppression. That’s not a new thing. Justin Simien Read Quote
Getting ‘SNL’ was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big. Bill Hader Read Quote
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life. A. J. Muste Read Quote
I always felt culturally adrift as a child because I’m mixed race. I’ve had to deal with that since I was little. Who am I? What makeup do I have? What are the black and the white? Rhiannon Giddens Read Quote
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
Temeraire’ is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love – fantasy and historical epic. Peter Jackson Read Quote
