The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three...
Truth is beheld by the intellect which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the intelligible; beauty is beheld by the imagination which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the sensible. The first step in the direction of truth ...
Judge Doom: [picks up the record from the record player - reads] "Merry-Go-Round Broke Down". What a looney selection for a group of drunken reprobates. [all the drinkers turn away and cough - Doom sniffs the record] Judge Doom: HE'S HERE! [throws re...
It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame a...
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.
A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.
Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody else who did this or did that. Performances. So it just becomes a reflection of what already works. Like a warm...
Roger Rabbit: Let's forget it, there's nobody here! Eddie Valiant: Is that it, or are you scared? Roger Rabbit: P-p-p-p-please! Me, scared? Don't be ridiculous! [teeth chatter]
Benny the Cab: Sister Mary Frances! What the hell happened in here? I've been a cab for thirty-seven years, and I've never seen a mess like this!
Roger Rabbit: Benny, you go to the cops. I'm gonna save my wife. Benny the Cab: Be careful with that gun. This ain't no cartoon, you know.
Jessica Rabbit: Mr. Valiant? [Valiant turns around; Jessica slaps him] Jessica Rabbit: I hope you're proud of yourself, and those pictures you took.
Jessica Rabbit: Oh, Honey Bunny! Roger Rabbit: Oh, Love Cup. Jessica Rabbit: [kisses Roger] Oh, Roger! You were a pillar of strength.
Kid #3: Hey, mister. Ain't you got a car? Eddie Valiant: Who needs a car in L.A.? We have the best public transportation system in the world.
Benny the Cab: Pull the lever! Eddie Valiant: Which one? Roger Rabbit: Which one? Benny the Cab: "Which one?" [a sign pops up on the dashboard reading "This one, stupid!"]
Roger Rabbit: [Emerges from the closet and slaps cuffs on Eddie] Eddie Valiant, you're under arrest! Pbbbbbbbbb... Eddie Valiant: Get outta there! Idiot, I got no keys for these cuffs!
[Valiant runs up to a trolley that is about to leave. He holds up his $50 check to the conductor] Conductor: What do I look like? A bank?
Roger Rabbit: You're also the guy that helped all these Toons, everybody knows if a Toon's in trouble, there's only one place to go, Valiant and Valiant
How do you know she had sex?” Dallas asks. “Every time a penis touches Britain, I receive a telepathic notification.” “Oh,” Dallas says with a straight face. “Well that explains a lot.
Oh, but I don't abide by your time frame, giant," Reyna said. "A Roman does not wait for death. She seeks it out, and meets it on her own terms.
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
