Kenneth Anger Quotes

• Making a movie is casting a spell.

  Kenneth Anger

  Casting, Spells

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• Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

  Kenneth Anger

  Art, Color, Saint

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.

  Kenneth Anger

  Evil, Soul, Definitions

  "Kenneth Anger: Where The Bodies Are Buried" by Mick Brown, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

  Kenneth Anger

  Evil, Black, Cinema

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• A film about the love generation - the birthday party of the Aquarian Age showing actual ceremonies to make Lucifer rise. Lucifer is the Light god, not the devil - the Rebel Angel behind what's happening in the world today. His message is that the key of joy is disobedience. Isis (Nature) wakes. Osiris (Death) answers. Lilith (Destroyer) climbs to the place of Sacrifice. The Magus activates the circle and Lucifer - Bringer of Light - breaks through.

  Kenneth Anger

  Party, Angel, Sacrifice

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• A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.

  Kenneth Anger

  Mirrors, Views, Jeans

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• I think it's basically quite different from dreams. If only cinema was that easy. Because dreams, all you have to do is fall asleep, and you can have fantastic vision. I know Baudelaire and people like that enhance their dreams with opium or something. But films are very constructed - they're like architecture. They're pieced together, glued together. To me, it's a craft. It's like making a tapestry.

  Kenneth Anger

  Dream, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a Thelemite. I believe in Thelema, which is Crowley's so-called religion. There are some practitioners here who do something called the Gnostic Mass. I've been to that a few times, but basically, I'm a loner. I don't really need other people.

  Kenneth Anger

  Believe, People, Loner

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.

  Kenneth Anger

  Media, Made, Members

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• I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

  Kenneth Anger

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to remember dreams, and occasionally I'll make a note or two in a notebook if it's something extra interesting. They do mean quite a lot to me, and they don't happen all that often. In other words, I don't have some kind of loud, Technicolor dream every night. But a few times a month, I'll have a rather interesting dream. They're mostly visual - oddly enough, I don't have much dialogue in my dreams. They just don't speak.

  Kenneth Anger

  Notebook, Dream, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

  Kenneth Anger

  Speech, Film, Made

  "Kustom Film Kommando". Interview with Clay Smith, www.austinchronicle.com. October 31, 1997.

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• Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

  Kenneth Anger

  Home, Hollywood, Ghost

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• Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

  Kenneth Anger

  Glowing, America, Generations

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• Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

  Kenneth Anger

  People, Directors, Routine

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• I hate to say that, but the past was much more fascinating. I don't particularly care for any of the current crop of actors. I don't particularly care for any of the current crop of directors. But I have a lot of friends who are editors, and there are a lot of technical things going on here that are interesting.

  Kenneth Anger

  Hate, Past, Editors

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2014.

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• Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.

  Kenneth Anger

  Focus, Hollywood, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've made several films that haven't been shown.

  Kenneth Anger

  Anger, Film, Made

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• A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.

  Kenneth Anger

  Stars, Hollywood, Gone

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• I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

  Kenneth Anger

  People, Risk, May

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• The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

  Kenneth Anger

  New York, Rights, Cost

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• I prefer to think of film making - you know, um, the sweat is supposed to be invisible. But a lot of sweat can go into making a film. But of course, if you enjoy doing it, you enjoy doing it.

  Kenneth Anger

  Thinking, Film, Invisible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

  Kenneth Anger

  July, Navy, United States

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