Julien Temple Quotes

• Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.

  Julien Temple

  Sex, Pistols, Able

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2000.

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• I always felt there was kind of a millennial aspect to The Sex Pistols.

  Julien Temple

  Sex, Millennials, Pistols

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've tried to stay true, in my own fashion, to the ideas of The Sex Pistols, even while I was working with bands like Duran Duran or the Stones, whoever it might be. The thing that was attractive to me personally about videos in the beginning was that it was uncharted territory, and in a sense the record companies didn't know what they were doing.

  Julien Temple

  Fashion, Sex, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.

  Julien Temple

  Fashion, Issues, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's nothing in the street
  Looks any different to me
  And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
  And the parting on the left
  Is now the parting on the right
  And the beards have all grown longer overnight.

  Julien Temple

  Bye, Different, Looks

  "Song: 'Won't Get Fooled Again'". 1971.

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• No one has actually gone further than The Sex Pistols, I don't think, in that cultural music arena. They still challenge people.

  Julien Temple

  Sex, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.

  Julien Temple

  Jobs, Sex, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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