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Jones also said that he personally was willing to argue at any level to see that the necessary funds were made available. He also said, however, that "of course, there's a great suspicion that the needed criteria will be geared to fit a certain amount of dough...
...hair on the one hand, and a bunch of red-faced, beer-bloated law enforcement officials on the other. But it became apparent in the early going that the parameters were going to have to be stretched a little, because if one side didn't adhere precisely to the criteria that had been set down, the other side was going to get massacred, for sure. And one thing this country doesn't need is a little more division among the ranks...
...fact, a university committee studying the possibility of increasing the enrollment of women undergraduates at Stanford concluded that had academic criteria alone been used to admit the class (without regard to sex), eleven more men and eleven fewer women would have been admitted...
What are my criteria? Well, all apologies to Manny, sincerity first of all: respect for the specifics of film narrative. Second, scope: the complexity of narrative situations, the intensity of their expression, their final relevance to any audience...
...compensate for the psychology the narrative develops, and the thoughts espoused. By talking with him, I learned things about the film art that you can only learn from a quirky, home-grown intelligence. But he couldn't convince me--nor, finally, did he even want to--that larger criteria are always pretentious, or that romantic visions and moral judgements are, in art, absolute evils...