I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“lady spectators were left satisfied: the spectacle had been a rich one.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with… — Plato Copy Share Image
“This is historic. This is generational,’ Dani said. Leo stared at the collapsing rally with awe. Jeff made a strangled noise. ‘I… — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep.… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star… — Yvonne Rainer Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson… — JC Chasez Copy Share Image
It's all about making an experience. You go to the movies to see something you've never seen before. You want to get… — Jon Watts Copy Share Image
Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
What a glorious spectacle is that of the labor of man upon the earth! It includes everything in it that is glorious.… — Alfred William Howitt Copy Share Image
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that,… — George Grey Copy Share Image
“The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
“The future promises us all our very own Truman Shows and when every man and woman is a star the spectacle becomes… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“What followed was for him a very entertaining spectacle, with one of Edward's brothers seemingly intent upon the most subtle of seductions… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
“There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than the sky, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do.… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Everything is spectacle. Everything is entertainment, whether it's shame, invasion of privacy, abuse, no matter what it is it's become almost a… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
“True wrestling, wrong called amateur wrestling, is performed in second-rate halls, where the public spontaneously attunes itself to the spectacular nature of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
