“What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.” IfsMadeSelfFilmArtistInterestUnitedCompanyGreaterReturnHollywoodMarkProtectionAllowingDistributionSelf InterestAlliancesCrazinessDistributorsHartChaplin Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I've always been able to steer clear of that and keep the business people out of my hair completely.” PeopleStatesAbleFilmUnitedUnited StatesClearInfluenceHairHarderSteersOutside Influences Author:Woody Allen
“I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.” KnowsSaidStatesDoneFilmPassionSpeakUnitedUnited StatesStudyGreenCardsAgentsMy PassionSpeak EnglishDyslexicStellaGreen CardAdler Author:Salma Hayek
“There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.” ThinkingWayTryingArtStatesFilmCultureUnitedUnited StatesHorrorDirectorsPicksEuropeFilmmakerCopiesEmphasisHorror FilmArt And Culture Author:Wes Craven
“I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York. But I don't think I could live in many places. When I had to make a film in the United States I picked San Francisco because to me it's one of the great cities of America.” ThinkingKnowsI CanStatesAmericaFilmUnitedCitiesUnited StatesFourNew YorkMonthsLondonParisSan FranciscoBarcelonaGreat Cities Author:Woody Allen
“The much-vaunted sex appeal of American women is drawn from films, reviews and pin-ups, and is in large print fictitious. A recent medical survey in the United States showed that 75% of young American women are without strong sexual feeling and instead of satisfying their libido they seek pleasure narcissistically in exhibitionism, vanity, and the cult of fitness and health in a sterile sense.” StatesFeelingsFilmYoungStrongSexPleasureUnitedUnited StatesMedicalVanityAppealsPrintReviewsSatisfyingCultPinsSurveysAmerican WomanHealth And FitnessSex AppealLibidoExhibitionism Author:Julius Evola