There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.
Renata AdlerThe radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.
Renata AdlerDo you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.
Renata AdlerThe motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.
Renata Adler