Carter, Angela Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Magic Toyshop

  1987, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Company of Wolves

  1984, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Company of Wolves

  1984, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Bloody Chamber

  1982, role: writer

Carter, Angela Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Rhubarb Rhubarb

  1980, role: miscellaneous crew

Famous quotes by Angela Carter:

"The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it."

"Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art."

"The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder."

"This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness."

"If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink."

"They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on."

"Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common."

"It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague."

"Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation"

"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

"The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick."

"What a joy it is to dance and sing!"

"What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?"

"Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody."

"A day without an argument is like an egg without salt."

"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us."

"Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence."

"Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people."

"It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time."

"Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death."