At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.
David Puttnam
Related Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore ... ANDY SERKIS I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows... WASSILY KANDINSKY I want to touch on every form of art and be the best at it and be the biggest at it. BENNY CASSETTE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO You see, there are always purists in every, in every art form and particularly I think in, in perfor... TIM CURRY Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac... KAREN A. ANDERSON As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE A gap in skills and abilities reveal a golden opportunity! ABHISHEK RATNA We got at each other every day in the room. It's been good to have someone to compete with. HOUSTON MADER Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in eve... JOSEPH CONRAD Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in ev... JOSEPH CONRAD Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underl... CHRISTOPHER LASCH What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is... JOHN BERGER In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no ot... LARRY MULLEN, JR. In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirro... MARJORIE ROSEN I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art his... GEORGE HICKENLOOPER The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion. MIKE BIRBIGLIA Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate... BILL GATES Your ears love to hear, so speak to it SOTONYE ANGA As we age, we lose the ability to convert vitamin D into its usable form, so elderly people are at g... LONA SANDON The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it ... WALTER MURCH Many of every day blessings comes from your determination to do great. NELSON RIOS In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm say... ALBERTO MANGUEL A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its sev... CHUCKY ATKINS You have to pay what the market bears, ... and in that regard, we are no different than any other bu... BOB BOWLSBY The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not on... ALAN LEE People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did n... ROBERT DARNTON They get the best of both worlds -- they retain the employee owned culture and they inherit a liquid... ALEX BRAND The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows th... IMRE KERTESZ The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis. THURGOOD MARSHALL Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act;
When they sow that act, they will reap a habit... PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ... GARY F EVANS... There's tremendous demand for skilled people at all levels of almost every organization and almost e... BRUCE TULGAN Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world'... LUCE IRIGARAY Every season has its own art and the art of autumn is to bewitch the people! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Every problem is waiting for an answer. Who will provide the answer? SOTONYE ANGA It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. ... JAMES C. DOBSON Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its... HERMANN HESSE It isn't clear to me, and it isn't clear to people at the paper, exactly why the waiver wasn't accep... ADAM CLYMER I have a great faith in every generation's ability to come up with its own music. JOHN MCLAUGHLIN We recognize that both counties have strained budgets. He brings with him a background in economics,... GENE CISEWSKI All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some sma... ROMESH GUNESEKERA Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this busine... ROBERT MENZIES Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don&... HARUKI MURAKAMI Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE She's very authentic. She's involved in opera and she sees it for what it is, looking at all aspects... KATHY HOTCHNER At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domest... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d... THERESE MAY Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled ... EZRA KLEIN Every word, every gesture is now loaded with ambiguity, nothing can be taken at face value. We speak... AMY TAN Most people dress according to their culture and their ethnic background. You almost embrace the cul... DALE DAVIS Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thous... OSCAR WILDE Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousa... OSCAR WILDE I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do wi... ROLF HARRIS This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your e... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN Music - music that moves you - usually comes because something horrible has happened to you. It's ca... WAYNE COYNE In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and
receives more instruction from the Press ... OLIVER GOLDSMITH Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie pro... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but ... YANN MARTEL Almost every measure of education, or cognitive ability, or talent is now associated with a higher i... HARRY HOLZER Every government has its own rules for antitrust that are in many ways very different from each othe... DION WIGGINS As with every other age and the technologies that are developed, there are vulnerabilities you have ... DANIEL KUEHL Survivors of atrocity of every age and every culture come to a point in their testimony where all qu... JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world wh... MAYA ANGELOU Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, a... DOUGLAS ADAMS Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ar... DOUGLAS ADAMS She still talks to Nick almost every other day and that she absolutely considers him still one of he... WHITNEY MCNALLY How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL This is the way to make things work for you. Put your ability to work SOTONYE ANGA The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society w... WADAH KHANFAR The ability to make wise choices is the most valuable skill a person can develop. ABHISHEK RATNA To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. THOMAS HARDY As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop... ERIC ALTERMAN Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. There... APOLLONIUS OF TYANA The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost eve... LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE At that age, I was, first and foremost, a thing to be judged, and that shifted the power in every in... EMMA CLINE The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions a... STANLEY KUBRICK
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