Home / Quotes / Quote by Manny Farber

Quote by Manny Farber

“From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.”

Quote by Manny Farber

Author

Manny Farber was an influential American painter known for his abstract expressionist works. Born on February 20, 1917, he spent his career exploring the boundaries of form and color. Farber's paintings often feature geometric shapes and bold brushstrokes, reflecting his interest in both the abstract and the representational. He passed away on August 18, 2008. more

You May Also Like

“Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.”

Should Different Shows Film Guy Three Stage Towns Radio Versions Magnificent Old Days Good Old Days Different Guys

Book:Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

Source: Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

“The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).”

Men Bigs Sleep Honest He Man Hollywood Excitement Unwilling Underworld Surrealist Bogart Big Sleep

Book:Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

Source: Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

“The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.”

Has Beens Bigs Sleep Existence Study Crime Relation Curiosity Complicated Detectives Sweetheart Big Sleep

Book:Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

Source: Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

“The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.”

Mean Art Beautiful Cold Taste Shots Hollywood Proof Titles Sunset Suspects Craftsman Boulevard Resurgence Sunset Boulevard

Book:Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

Source: Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

“I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.”

Author:Marc Faber

“As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.”

Important Issues One Thing Missing Europe India China Meaningful Observers Greece

Author:Marc Faber

“I am surprised with the reelection of Mr. Obama. The S&P is only down, like, 30 points. I would have thought that the market on his reelection should be down at least 50%.”

Should Reelection

Author:Marc Faber

“I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt.”

Thinking States Problem Would Be Care United United States Republican Debt Disaster Romney

Author:Marc Faber

“If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.”

People Ifs World Government Economy Economic Percent Crisis Western Cancer Western World Economic Crisis

Author:Marc Faber

“In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.”

People Economy Months Six Oil Bubbles Commodity Six Months Housing Central Banks Cuckoos Housing Bubble

Author:Marc Faber