Alexander Walker

I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.

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These are some quotes by American author Alexander Walker Businessman, who lived between 1837 and 1889.

Quotes by Alexander Walker

In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.

Alexander Walker

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Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.

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I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

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