Elvis Mitchell Quotes

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Elvis Mitchell

Profession : Critic

Birth : December 6, 1958

The Ebert thing just didn't work out. We just couldn't, like, come to an agreement. And 'Movieline', they obviously didn't want me, because they fired me.

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I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like being the fastest midget in the circus.

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If somebody wants to attack my work, that's one thing - that, I'll respond to.

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Some people bring their work home with them. You might suppose that Sid Mashburn is one of those guys - the man was born with a name so brand-ready he basically had to become an entrepreneur.

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My style icon has always been Sidney Poitier.

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In 2013, when it turned out that the plot of LaBeouf's short film 'HowardCantour.com' (2012) had been purloined from graphic novelist Daniel Clowes's 2007 comic 'Justin M. Damiano', the actor-director responded with a series of tweet apologies that also appeared to be shoplifted.

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Real-life conduct aside, LaBeouf, a Los Angeles native, has been working steadily as an actor since he was 12 years old.

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Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy.

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Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life.

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Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.

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Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director.

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Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died?

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Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially caught the public's attention as a model - you may remember him from those greasy underwear ads with Eva Mendes, among many others.

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My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it's an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid, you can be an astronaut or a ballerina or a singer, but as a grown person, you need to go and get a job.

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I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

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In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it, set it on fire, step on it, hammer nails into it.

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For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.

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The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker.

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Given how unflinching his productions have been, the 44-year-old McQueen is remarkably gentle and thoughtful - so much so that he will request a moment to consider a question, and turn it around in his head to get the shape and weight of it, before answering, occasionally with an excited rush of words in response.

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People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them.

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