Milieu Quotes

(on Betsy Drake) Betsy was a delightful comedienne, but I don`t think Hollywood was ever really her milieu. She wanted to help humanity, to help others help themselves.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

(On Las Vegas) The only good thing about Vegas is watching horse races and football games and being able to throw some money down on them. I don`t play the tables, because they`re just a sucker`s game. Actually, the whole thing is a sucker`s game. I`m not a huge Vegas fan, but it`s the perfect milieu for the show. Everyone who goes there, even if they`re old ladies from a Bible group in Mississippi, they go there to stick nickels into slots and feel a little dirty and dark. Shit happens when you get into that world. Guys lose their wives and money, women end up deciding to stay and become strippers. It`s the dirty playground for the Darth Vader in all of us.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

We live now in a milieu that tells us anything goes, everything is okay, and all ideas and behaviours have merit. That`s hogwash, and you know it.

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it`s a milieu where everyone is often naked.

Ballet`s image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.