I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.
Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I think he's very, very talented. I don't care that people say he's pretentious. So what? He's a good director; he can be pretentious.
I was a really pretentious teenager.
I never want to be pretentious.
What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.
I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
Wow. I am really pretentious.
What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.
I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
