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Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer

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  • Анна П.hat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Jahren
    Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word.
  • Andrey Mochhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    r many a biblical atrocity. As w
  • Gahrveanthan. Shat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Jahren
    Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell. Why’s he taking this route? the driver said.
  • alumnohat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Jahren
    No, we fought to the tunes of love songs, for we were the Italians of Asia.
  • bk572970hat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Jahren
    The Auteur grimaced and said, Very interesting. Great stuff. Loved it, but I had a question. What was it. Oh, yes. How many movies have you made. None. Isn’t that right. None, zero, zilch, nada, nothing, and however you say it in your language. So thank you for telling me how to do my job. Now get the hell out of my house and come back after you’ve made a movie or two. Maybe then I’ll listen to one or two of your cheap ideas.

    Why was he so rude? Madame said. Didn’t he ask you to give him some comments?

    He was looking for a yes man. He thought I’d give him a rubber stamp of approval.

    He thought you were going to fawn over him.

    When I didn’t do it, he was hurt. He’s an artist, he’s got thin skin.

    So much for your career in Hollywood, the General said.
  • bk572970hat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Jahren
    me pointing out that the lack of speaking parts for Vietnamese people in a movie set in Vietnam might be interpreted as cultural insensitivity.
  • bk572970hat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Jahren
    I researched your country, my friend. I read Joseph Buttinger and Frances FitzGerald. Have you read Joseph Buttinger and Frances FitzGerald. He’s the foremost historian on your little part of the world. And she won the Pulitzer Prize. She dissected your psychology. I think I know something about you people.
  • bk572970hat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Jahren
    You’re the first Vietnamese I’ve ever met. Not too many of you in Hollywood. Hell, none of you in Hollywood. And authenticity’s important. Not that authenticity beats imagination. The story still comes first.
  • bk572970hat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Jahren
    Here I speak of those cartoons named Fu Manchu, Charlie Chan, Number One Son, Hop Sing—Hop Sing!—and the bucktoothed, bespectacled Jap not so much played as mocked by Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
  • bk572970hat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Jahren
    Me, I left before that even got started. Maybe you can give some feedback. Otherwise who knows what kind of Hollywood story they’re going to make.
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