quotes about Film History

last updated: November 28, 2023

There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody but white men. These are things that we talk about a lot in contemporary culture, and it's interesting to me to go look at film history from the perspective of today.
-- Karina Longworth

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“Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.”
“When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.”

Source : "Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom". Book by William Glasser (p. 70), 1997.
“Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.”
“Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, and he's got this sharp beak that's facing out to the world.He's okay for now.”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”
“The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.”
“Daughters arenâ€™t to be independent. Theyâ€™re not to act outside the scope â€¨of their father. As long as theyâ€™re under the authority of their fathers, fathers have the ability to nullify or not the oaths and the vows. Daughters canâ€™t just go out â€¨independently and say, â€˜Iâ€™m going to marry whoever I want.â€™ No. The father has â€¨the ability to say, â€˜No, Iâ€™m sorry, that has to be approved by me.â€™”
“Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.”
“I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.”

Source : Robert Boyle (1738). “The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine. The Whole Illustrated with Notes, Containing the Improvements Made in the Several Parts of Natural and Experimental Knowledge Since His Time. In Three Volumes. By Peter Shaw, M.D.”, p.28
“I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others.”