Postmodern Quotes

Every single film since (Pride and Prejudice) there`s been a scene where someone goes, `Well I think you`ve just killed Mr Darcy`. But he is a figure that won`t die. He is wandering somewhere. I can`t control him. I tried to play with it in Bridget Jones. I`ve never resented it: if it wasn`t for him I might be languishing, but part of me thinks I should do this postmodern thing, change my name by deed poll to Mr Darcy. Then people can come up to me and say, `But you are not Mr Darcy` which would be different. I dare say it will be my saving grace when the only employment available to me is opening supermarkets dressed in breeches and a wig.

I grew up in the heat of 70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. My film is emotional rather than meta, and that`s my rebellion.

The guys we were stealing from in The Wire are the Greeks. In our heads we`re writing a Greek tragedy, but instead of the gods being petulant and jealous Olympians hurling lightning bolts down at our protagonists, it`s the Postmodern institutions that are the gods. And they are gods. And no one is bigger.

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we`re trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn`t.