Julien Temple Quotes About Sex Pistols
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I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.
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No one has actually gone further than The Sex Pistols, I don't think, in that cultural music arena. They still challenge people.
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I always felt there was kind of a millennial aspect to The Sex Pistols.
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I've tried to stay true, in my own fashion, to the ideas of The Sex Pistols, even while I was working with bands like Duran Duran or the Stones, whoever it might be. The thing that was attractive to me personally about videos in the beginning was that it was uncharted territory, and in a sense the record companies didn't know what they were doing.
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Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.
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