Jonathan Lethem Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Order, Demand, Film

  Source: www.believermag.com

• A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Photography, Dog, Choices

  Interview with Paul Auster, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

• The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Black And White, Giants, Watches

• Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...

  Jonathan Lethem

  Thinking, Matter, Energy

  "‘No, I don’t paint anymore’ – Bookmunch Classic Interview: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Peter Wild, bookmunch.wordpress.com. October 31, 2013.

• I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Personality, Trying, Twenties

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Perfect, Wish, Novelists

  Interview with Paul Auster, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

• With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Four, Pages

  Source: www.believermag.com

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