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I didn't like '12 Years a Slave' because it was playing to the Spielbergian model of redemption.

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Hilton Als
American - Writer
Born: 1960

If you take something like the slave-auction sketch, the warmth of the light gives it a crisp 12 Years a Slave look. And your eye tells your brain, "I should be taking this seriously."

Keegan-Michael Key

All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all.

Lupita Nyong'o

Michael Fassbender is phenomenal in '12 Years a Slave.'

Stana Katic

When you're 12, a 12-year-old girl is so out of your league, because they have no interest in you. You're like 10 years younger. You're 2 to them.

Michael Cera

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

Gary Oldman

I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.

Jonathan Davis

Perhaps, despite my objections, the success of films like: 'The Help,' 'Django,' 'The Butler,' or '12 Years a Slave,' will further persuade Hollywood to widen its view and edit its erroneous perception of what a commercial black film can look like.

Joe Morton

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

Gary Oldman

I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives.

Greg Norman

We had a band called the Grainers. In our 12-year-old minds, this was like a double entendre for like being annoying and being a delicious donut. I got kicked out of the band for playing bass incorrectly. Like, I was playing it like a guitar. I was just so like twee and British, even as like the little 12-year-old boy.

Oneohtrix Point Never

Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.

Lupita Nyong'o

I think '12 Years a Slave' really helped me, as a person and as a student, to grow.

Storm Reid

I didn't know that '12 Years a Slave' was being filmed at the same time we were making 'The Retrieval.'

Ashton Sanders

If I only had 12 years left to live, I'd want to live it as a member of Congress because that was the 12 longest years of my life.

Mike Pence

Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.

Mo Abudu

I was 12 years fittin to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. Ive been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so thats just the life. Weve been playing with money since young.

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