Kenneth Anger Quotes

#1. I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

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#2. Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

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#3. The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

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#4. Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.

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#5. A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.

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#6. I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

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#7. I've made several films that haven't been shown.

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#8. Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer.

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#9. I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

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#10. A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.

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#11. Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

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#12. Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.

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#13. Making a movie is casting a spell.

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#14. This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

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#15. Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood ... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

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#16. I'm a Thelemite. I believe in Thelema, which is Crowley's so-called religion. There are some practitioners here who do something called the Gnostic Mass. I've been to that a few times, but basically, I'm a loner. I don't really need other people.

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