Robert Gottlieb quotes

Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach? (Robert Gottlieb)
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. View quote
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Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. View quote
Robert Gottlieb
Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more. View quote
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'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with 'The Wrestler,' only with a prettier protagonist. View quote
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How the English love playing at being naughty boys! View quote
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When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. View quote
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The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. View quote
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Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. View quote
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As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep. View quote
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Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. (Robert Gottlieb)
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. View quote
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Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. View quote
Robert Gottlieb
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study. View quote
Robert Gottlieb

Robert Gottlieb

Occupation: American Writer
Born: April 29, 1931
Died: June 14, 2023
Quotes count: 14