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Making the ordinary potentially magical is what film should be all about.

~Geoff Dyer

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The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.

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In the 1930s, photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange produced images of sharecroppers and Okies, which drew attention both to the conditions in which these unfortunates found themselves and to their heroic fortitude.

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While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in - or, at the very least, recognize the extent to which we, too, are beneficiaries of - an economic system we routinely deplore.

~Geoff Dyer

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Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; 'The Grapes of Wrath' has turned into 'Nickel and Dimed.'

~Geoff Dyer

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My Tarkovsky idolatry was at its peak, but 'Nostalghia' really didn't do anything for me. 'The Sacrifice' was similarly disappointing for me. Next thing we knew, he was dead.

~Geoff Dyer

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In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'd be a late showing of some great film.

~Geoff Dyer

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I was studying English, as you will, in the day, and five nights a week, I would be at the cinema. That continued throughout my 20s, which was also the 1980s - there was a lot of really good films coming out then.

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One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remained young and all-around fantastic is his ongoing receptivity to new things. I think that's important.

~Geoff Dyer

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Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'

~Geoff Dyer

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 5th, 1958

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