“Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously.”
"So much of what I see in English literature about China is 'victim literature.' While that is needed, it gives only a partial picture."
"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
We live for books.
"I get mad at people who say I’m a contrarian. That’s honestly not where I come from."
"I had a bong-shaped albatross around my neck, something I was eager to shake."
Antje Ehmann is a film theoretician, researcher, curator and artist.
"I adore few humans more than I love books."
"The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society."
Wants "to lead you from your first spatula purchase through your expert entertaining undertakings."
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
