Philip French quotes

“In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again.”
-- Philip French

Source : "Feathered frenzy" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2005.

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“There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but difficult pupil with derision and constant punishment. The aim is to bring out the best in the victim and to make him into a he-man or...a he-woman.”
-- Philip French

Source : "The Guardian" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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“Casablanca is back on the big screen in a new print and looks and sounds better as time goes by. It is the product of numerous accidents, all of them happy, and I laugh, cry and have my better instincts appealed to whenever I see it.”
-- Philip French

Source : "Casablanca" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

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“The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989.”
-- Philip French

Source : "The Pink Panther" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2006.

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“In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in order to challenge the threatening tide of Nazism and fascism and also to provide employment for actors from Los Angeles's British colony. The best two were Hollywood's Gunga Din and Britain's The Four Feathers...”
-- Philip French

Source : "The Four Feathers" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

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“The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.”
-- Philip French

Source : "Nothing happens, but..." by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2004.

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“The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs”

“The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?”

“I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.”

“All healthy men have thought of their own suicide”

“Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.”

“My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.”

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”