Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.

- Annette Bening

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

- Alan Dundes

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.

- Atom Egoyan

I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.

- Alfonso Cuaron

If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.

- Arne Glimcher

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.

- Antony Beevor

If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.

- Andrew Mason

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

- Alfred Marshall

I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.

- Alexander Chee

Politicians take something out of context to create problems.

- Anurag Kashyap

I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

- Ai Weiwei

There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas.

- Amy Heckerling

The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.

- Alex Berenson

I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.

- Alan Arkin

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

- Adam Lambert

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

- Ani DiFranco

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

- Andy Goldsworthy

As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

- Alan King

Context is worth 80 IQ points.

- Alan Kay