Elvis Mitchell Quotes

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Elvis Mitchell

Profession : Critic

Birth : December 6, 1958

One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers.

Elvis Mitchell

The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - I'm going to go into hip-hop.'

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You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government, politics - it's everywhere. It's not exclusively film. It's infuriating to see it in film. But my being in film changes things.

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A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people.

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Stewart's interest in serious acting gives her something in common with Theron - and, like Theron, some of her most provocative work has come through working with women.

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Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the complicated 'Queen Ravenna', and Stewart's performance as 'Snow White', the fairest of them all, in her first action-heroine role, kept her literally in constant motion.

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That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.

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'Ravenna' is, in many ways, the ultimate example of how a woman's perception of herself can lead to this horrible road being taken.

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If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure.

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Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up striding across the stage in a red leather ensemble that would have made Elvis Presley chuckle, yet is probably best known to anyone born in the 21st century as the overly chatty donkey from 'Shrek.'

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Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created.

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I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of a certain age, I went because a friend was hired by Berry that very day to be part of the legend's backup band.

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I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment.

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I've been cheered by the reaction to what I've done with Film Independent at LACMA and the organizational support I've received in pursuing it.

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I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope of my programming purview at Film Independent. I salute David Ansen for his work with the festival and look forward to continuing to follow his example.

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I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.

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I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center.

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My first paying job in Los Angeles was taking tickets at the Bing under Ron Haver.

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Tarantino thinks the Bing is a great room for comedy.

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