“I'm pretty sure the world is in solid agreement that "The Wire" is worth watching all the way through.” Quote by Hank Stuever
“My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.” PeopleYearsFirstsShowsPartyWatchesTelevisionTvsPrideArmsDrugCriticsStartingTake MeExesDealerDvdsBaltimoreDrug Dealers Author:Hank Stuever
“I don't have scientific data, but I think plenty of perfectly nice weekends are being given over to the binge craze.” ThinkingGivenNicePlentyDataWeekendBingeCraze Author:Hank Stuever
“I really wanted to take the viewer to the 'here and now' regarding the exterminations, and communicate directly in a visceral way. The art of cinema can communicate that way, and that's why I wanted to do it that way.” WayArtWantedCommunicateCinemaViewersHere And NowVisceralExtermination Author:Laszlo Nemes
“It's a movie depiction you don't want to screw up.” WantScrewsScrew UpsDepiction Author:Laszlo Nemes
“When I began research, I read the writings of the Sonderkommandos. They are not well known, but these prisoners wrote from the middle of hell from Auschwitz, to let the world know what happened. The texts were buried beneath the ground and found after the liberation of the concentration camps.” KnowsWorldWritingWellsFoundKnownHellHappenedMiddleResearchLiberationConcentrationPrisonerBuriedCampsWell KnownAuschwitzConcentration CampNot Well Known Author:Laszlo Nemes
“There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future.” IfsThinkingHumansHeartTendenciesPreparingBetter FutureHuman Potential Author:Laszlo Nemes
“We have seen and do see the type of evil that is within human civilization, and the Holocaust took place in European history during an advanced state of technology and form of civilization, only to become an event in that history that questioned what civilization actually means.” HumansMeanStatesFormEvilTechnologyEventsTypeCivilizationHolocaustHuman CivilizationEuropean History Author:Laszlo Nemes
“I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries are in the handwriting of the sister closets in age (5 years my senior). She must have gotten tired of my dictations because she gave up and then my blocky scrawl shows up. I wrote plays as a kid mostly.” WritingYearsFirstsPlayShowsHandsKidsAgeThreeTiredJournalSeniorClosetsSiblingGave UpEntryHandwritingDictationOlder Sibling Author:Julianna Baggott
“My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.” WantedTenActressesNyc Author:Julianna Baggott
“Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.” MatterVariousBoatGenreBottles Author:Julianna Baggott