Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.
On ‘Half Nelson,’ I was credited as the director, we both co-wrote it and Anna was the producer. We didn’t know too many directing teams working at the time except the Coen brothers and that seemed to be the model, and people always know that they’re a team, whether the credit reflected that or not.
Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn’t you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old boy can become Anna Karenina. It is a miracle.
My favourite actress is Meryl Streep. Oh, and Anna Magnani.
On some level, you could say you wouldn’t have ‘In Style Magazine’ at all had Anna Wintour not decided to put celebrities on the cover of ‘Vogue’ from her earliest years as Editor in Chief.
I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.
As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
‘Anna Karenina’ is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It’s gossip, rubbish – on the other hand, it’s the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
Mum got me involved in every activity under the sun – singing, dancing and drama classes at the Anna Scher theatre school.
Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe and Anna Magnani – women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn’t submit to any standard of beauty – they defined it.
I modeled a little bit of Quinn on ‘UnREAL’ after Ari Gold and Anna Wintour combined.
When the waif look first came into fashion, Anna Nicole Smith was in the Guess campaigns looking like a real woman. A girl who looks too thin and unhealthy does not look sexy to me, and she does not look right for Guess.
Colby Jordan is one of the most fashion-forward and passionate girls I know. She gives me these young Anna Wintour vibes when I’m around her!
A great writer is a great writer… Tolstoy was not a woman, but ‘Anna Karenina’ is still a pretty good book.
Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She’s a politician; I’m a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
I knew Anna Wintour was the editor in chief of Vogue,’ I just didn’t understand what it meant to wait around to meet with Anna Wintour.
In Jenny Offill’s remarkable first novel, ‘Last Things,’ 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
I read the novel ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ when it was first released, and I loved it.
Anna Katherine Green wrote about a female inquiry agent, and there were a scattering of female investigators in the 1970s, authored by men, who just didn’t ring true. So I thought, ‘Well, there’s an opening here for something.’
With ‘Anna Karenina,’ I just think it’s a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.
Interestingly, one summer I was visiting my sister in U.S.A., and I learned how to play the rhythm of ‘The Cup’ song, which is from the movie ‘Pitch Perfect’ where Anna Kendrick plays this song.
I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like ‘St. Anna’ is trying to raise.
The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was ‘Anna Karenina,’ which I first read in high school. The thing that appealed to me and constituted its Russianness for me was that it was simultaneously incredibly funny and sad.
Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina,’ that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two.
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