Russell Banks

'Russell Banks' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Banks, Russell Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Algren

  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Continental Drift

  2011, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Continental Drift

  2011, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Continental Drift

  2011, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Trailerpark

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Paris Stories: The Writing of Mavis Gallant

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Amérique, notre histoire

  2006, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Reading Alistair MacLeod

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Moor

  2005, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Sweet Hereafter

  1997, role: actor , character name: Dr. Robeson
• Play in Full Screen The Sweet Hereafter

  1997, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Affliction

  1997, role: writer

Banks, Russell Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Art of Theatrical Ushery

  2011, role: actor , character name: Band Member
• Play in Full Screen The Art of Theatrical Ushery

  2011, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Art of Theatrical Ushery

  2011, role: miscellaneous crew

Banks, Russell Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Hunger Games: A Reenactment - Part 1

  2013, role: actor , character name: President Snow
• Play in Full Screen The Hunger Games: A Reenactment - Part 1

  2013, role: actor , character name: Countdown Voice

Famous quotes by Russell Banks:

"That was the funny part of the reading."

"All you could do was flip switches and make lights blink."

"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."

"What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older."

"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."

"The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War."

"Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing."

"Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely."

"I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice."

"I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature."

"So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us."

"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."

"The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer."

"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."

"John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university."

"First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated."

"But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art."

"Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for."

"Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life."