James Wolcott Quotes

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

James Wolcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 10, 1952

Topics

SchoolUnhappyCountryTaxHeights

The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.

John Burnside

SonBeachBirdsSundayLittleUrban

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

Anna Deavere Smith

JobThinkYouActingDisappear

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Ani DiFranco

MusicHateSeriouslyThingsPop

Tinker Bell is a great wing woman. And as somebody pointed out to me, she is also a winged woman.

Rose McIver

GreatWomanMeSheBellOut

In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.

Michio Kaku

FutureCarRelaxDriveInternetYou

If you know how to shoot a scene, then you know how to shoot an action scene. If you've seen an action movie, and you watched it, and you paid attention to how scenes are constructed and where the camera is and how the camera moves, then you know how to do it.

Jonathan Levine

ActionCameraAttentionYouKnow

Artwise, I'm kind of a chameleon. I don't have an established style or anything like that.

Jonathan Hickman

StyleKindChameleonAnythingLike

There's always time to grow older. You can never grow younger.

JoJo Siwa

TimeGrowYouNeverAlwaysOlder

With 'Invisible,' I didn't want to create something that requires you to watch it more than once; I don't even expect people to watch it more than once per se. I just wanted you to have the experience and knowing that if you watch it a second time, it would be different because you would see different things.

Doug Liman

TimeExperiencePeopleBe Different

The biological mechanisms that control our health and well-being are much more dynamic - for better and for worse - than most people realize.

Dean Ornish

HealthPeopleControlBetterMore

The best of all kinds of movies are character-driven, and I definitely don't want to lose sight of why Derek and I started to write movies together in the first place.

Colin Trevorrow

BestTogetherLosePlaceMoviesWhy

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.

Antonio Banderas

LifeMeRestMy LifeForgetMovies

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