Janet Varney Quotes

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times.

I love Comic Con.

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Obviously, the Sixties was a time when everyone wanted to experiment, and then everything became very formulated and corporate, so artists tended to get pushed into a kind of pattern. Now, I think that has continued with the emergence of televised talent shows like 'X Factor.'

today everything is commercialized--politics, religion, education, ideology, belief, the armed services. ...Everything has its price.

At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often apes or references art. This referential, ersatz quality is why it's so fun to collect.

That's just the way the world's going - everything has to be so instantly commercial that it kills anything that's a little bit underground instantly.

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

You can argue about globalization and the many benefits it has had, but also you have to appeal to the mass with everything. The Chinese, the Americans, the Russians... Everything becomes this very bland product, and that's all we're producing at the moment. It's driven by money.

I am not against doing commercial cinema at all.

Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.

There are always pluses and minus to commercialization. It broadcasts something to the masses. So that's the plus. The minus is it may lose some of its meaning if you dilute it.

Comic-Con is my jam!

Contrary to what most people believe, fads are made, not born.

If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.

There's so much advertising on television that I find just lazy, just so lazy. I'm like, 'Why are they doing that?'

I'm not into Hello Kitty.

We're writing movies that people buy without thinking about it.

My mother is a Trekkie, and we're from San Diego, so I was going to Comic-Con when I was, like, 7 years old.

Rock and roll has become entertainment that just says what the consumer wants to hear. There's no more edge or rebellion that sets it apart from the norm.