#pretentious

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#going #i #i think #like #period

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker. ↗

— John Milius

#filmmaker #films #more #nothing #pretentious

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden. ↗

— John Milius

#felt #heavy #i #just #leaden

I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#everything #first #get #heads #i

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#breathe #cinema #could #guess #i

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#book #cracks #end #go #grove

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#like #movies #pompous #pretentious

I just love real characters, they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface. ↗

— David O. Russell

#dislikes #emotion #every #hates #i

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays… ↗

— Stephen Fry

#humour #pretentiousness #university #music

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#because #feel #flash #i #i do