Famous quotes containing the words state, film and/or award:
“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)
“You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
—Werner Herzog (b. 1942)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)