Quotes About Representation

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.

We see not because everything is visible, but because something always defies the eye, persisting beyond the remit of mere representation. This something, which Pasolini endeavors to situate at the heart of filmmaking, is preceisely 'that which always escapes from the grasp of that form of vision that is satisfied with itself in imagining itself as consicousness' (Lacan, 1998).

What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less.

Seamus Deane has defined the Wake as the fall of man into language—designating both the writer's and the reader's fall.16 As an elaboration of this, we may add that one of the Wakean falls is the fall of the human, or the idea of the human, under language and culture, under their proliferating representations.

Programming is modelisation of real life.

This line of reasoning brings us to a challenging question: If people are as incapable, as immoral, and as ignorant as the politicians indicate, then why is the right of these same people to vote defended with such passionate insistence?

I never understood the meaning of a film. I am very concrete. I only understand what is on the screen. In my whole life, I have never understood a single symbol.

To clarify Rear Window, I'd suggest this parable: The courtyard is the world, the reporter/photographer is the filmmaker, the binoculars stand for the camera and its lenses. And Hitchcock? He is the man we love to be hated by.

All theatre is political -- just as all other activities of human beings are political -- because theatre is not autonomous and must thus decide whose interests it serves.

Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge as representatives for all mankind.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.

Everything possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

The board should include a balance … such that no individual or small group of individuals can dominate the board's decision-making.

she might be interested in me, or what I attempt to represent.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them." Uh-oh, the reporter thought. Topics like these, he knew, were strictly off-limits. But John persisted. "All they seem to want to do

If a film needed an exotic backdrop… Chinatown could be made to represent itself or any other Chinatown in the world. Even today, it stands in for the ambiguous Asian anywhere.

If you're not at the table you're on the menu?