"You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition"
- Minnie Driver
About this Quote
In this quote, actress Minnie Driver is expressing her thoughts on being a part of a James Bond movie. She thinks that by belonging of this renowned franchise, one is likewise ending up being a part of something that runs out its time, or a metachronism. This describes the fact that the James Bond films have actually been around for decades and have actually become a custom in the world of cinema. By belonging of it, one is not just handling a role in a film, but also becoming a part of a long-standing tradition that has actually mesmerized audiences for generations.
This quote is written / told by Minnie Driver somewhere between January 31, 1971 and today. She was a famous Actress from England.
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"Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear"
"Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing"
"I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish"
"Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body"
"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition"
"I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture"
