Dan Fox Quotes:

If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career.

source: - "Dan Fox and the Virtues of Pretension". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 5, 2016.

Topics: Creative, Outsiders, Painting

I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

Topics: Thinking, Laughing, Insult, Laugh At Yourself

In Britain, class is a neurosis. You judge people from the moment they open their mouth and start speaking: what their accent represents in terms of where they were educated, what part of the country they're from, what kind of class background they have.

source: - "Dan Fox and the Virtues of Pretension". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 5, 2016.

Topics: Country, Judging, People

There's a sense of knowing when to stop and take a break from things, to step back from the work you're making, and of changing things up to keep them interesting for yourself.

source: - "Dan Fox and the Virtues of Pretension". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 5, 2016.

Topics: Interesting, Break

The contortions and games of identity that politicians play on themselves almost everyday is kind of extraordinary. Trump, for instance, speaks like a five-year-old in these vague generalities but then also makes out that he's an expert on everything; he's trying to have his cake and eat it. He's someone who is pretending that he's for the working person but comes from this enormously privileged background.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Everyday, Trying, Identity