Pretentious Quotes · Page 8

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

— Sadie Frost

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

— John Milius

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call…

— Dave Gibbons

Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to…

— Barbara G. Walker

Who names themselves 'The Situation?' I do not take myself seriously like that - not in the least bit - that would…

— Isaiah Mustafa

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of…

— Steve Carell

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to…

— Mads Mikkelsen

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern…

— Banksy

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so…

— Thomston

I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've…

— Jane Green

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

— Matthew Specktor

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone…

— Michelle Dockery

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop…

— Pete Townshend

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

— Lasse Hallstrom

When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious…

— Brett Ratner

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

— Mick Jagger

Independent means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's…

— Alexander Payne

My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a…

— Bo Burnham

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

— Juliana Hatfield

When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky…

— Carla Bruni

If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.

— Anonymous

The goal with my music is to maintain a certain honesty and quality. That sounds pretty pretentious as if I'm trying to…

— Milo

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts…

— Damon Lindelof

I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's…

— Billy Collins