July 2011
1 post
Quiz: Name the novel from Amazon’s key phrases →
March 2011
2 posts
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“Tease the viewer with the possibility that the person in front of the camera...”
– “Primer: Brian De Palma” by Noel Murray and Scott Tobias
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February 2011
9 posts
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“The pleasure of working at Criterion, is the pleasure of being able to do it...”
– “A Conversation with Peter Becker” on Digital Bits
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“I think the most logical explanation is that it wasn’t the right show at the...”
– Shawn Ryan on the failure of Terriers, in Vulture.
“it’s legal” is what people say when they don’t have ethics. the law is there to...”
– James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. He’s talking about ticket scalpers, but really, it applies to so much more. (via zedequalszee)
“I don’t think of myself as difficult. We’re expected to do stuff...”
– David Fincher
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“There was always a discipline within my partying structure.”
– Jack Nicholson
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“Roy Lichtenstein did no more or less for comics than Andy Warhol did for soup.”
– Art Spiegelman via Comics Alliance
January 2011
12 posts
3 tags
“Disney didn’t just build monorails or trolleys to move people from A to B....”
– Tom Vanderbilt, “Streetcars vs. Monorails: The future of urban transportation looks a lot like the past,” in Slate
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“I don’t know why you would form a band and not want your life changed by it and...”
– Carrie Brownstein, interviewed by The AV Club
“It’s true, Walt Disney was not a saint. He was merely a guy who completely...”
– Vern, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [sic]
December 2010
5 posts
4 tags
November 2010
19 posts
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“The movie business is all the crap and ego and greed that people have always...”
– Berkeley Breathed, interviewed on (of all sites) Ain’t It Cool
“It’s hard not to be at least a little skeptical of a storyline that teases...”
– Laura Hudson on Comics Alliance, re: “Death of Spider-Man”
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“Here’s the thing: people don’t need massage. They want it....”
– Christy Vannoy, “The Calling,” McSweeney’s
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“User comments online can be very noxious, yet at Flickr they are not. Why is...”
– Caterina Fake talking to Nick Bilton
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“The secret to our success is we have a lot of different filmmakers who regularly...”
– Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich
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“Basically I just approached [Twitter] as a comedy writer, not as “Hey, I just...”
– Conan O’Brien, in Vulture
October 2010
125 posts
“I’m so glad The Rocker bombed, because it taught me one of life’s...”
– Rainn Wilson in Vulture
