“Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park,' or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.'” MenWantCharacterUseWould BeKidsScriptsFatsParksAttorneyMayorsImposingPompous Author:Fred Melamed
“Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.” MenStillsOrderCultureFantasySilentMalesBoundsObsessionCommandMakersTiedSymbolicImposing Book:Visual and Other Pleasures Source: Visual and Other Pleasures
“If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.” IfsMenI CanEyeAccountsImpressiveExaggerationImposingCopying Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations