No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.
I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don't they care about having to clean certain things.
Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place. It sounds a little pretentious, I know. But that's really what I set for myself.
I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or pompous.
The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.
It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.
Scott Pilgrim: You're pretentious, this club sucks, I have beef. Let's do it.
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.
The assholes are always puzzled when the order of the universe is restored, when they are held accountable for their cowardly, pretentious, loveless ways.
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
