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His work on the Godfather trilogy, The Parallax View, Klute, and Woody Allen’s films helped define the very look of 1970s American cinema.

Phyllida Barlow: “The western world is as monument crazy as the dictatorships. I often think there’s a strange paradox there in that, though they may take a different visual form, both are coming from a highly individualistic place.”

“Actors, we have this thing called a ‘sense memory’ which we draw on for particularly emotional moments. We have these things stored away in a vault and we can draw them out when we need to.”

“Roth has never seemed so relaxed or content. Usually, a cocktail of vanity, optimism, and defiance, spiked with raw economic necessity, keeps old writers in the game long after they should have bowed out. Roth has beaten the odds.”

“A Sturtevant work is as instantly and uncannily recognizable as a Warhol silk-screen, say, or a Johns flag. But, at the same time, each in its own way is a deliberately inexact likeness of its more famous progenitor.”

“‘I am trying to bring together all of the elements of the Iraqi experience,’ Mr. Saadawi said. ‘There are many messages. One of them is that with this war and violence, no one is innocent.'”

“To an exclusive circle of independent filmmakers who know how much his collages of sound and musical refinement added to their movies from the late seventies to the early nineties, his name is still invoked with an affection verging on awe.”

“Alexander Pereira, the incoming director general of La Scala has vowed to show the world’s most famous opera house he is “not a dunce” after a humiliating controversy between Milan and his current employers, the Salzburg festival, resulted in his original five-year contract being torn up before he had even begun.”

“The department had no inventory of its holdings. There was virtually no funding for the restoration of buildings. And some of the country’s most important cultural and tourist destinations — granite hills painted with images of animals centuries ago — were being damaged.”

“Nowadays, if I had to fill out a blank thing that said what do you do, I would say I compose. And conduct and play the piano. But I’m really a composer. I really like that.”